Qusetion about patch ;)

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:52:59 +0200 (CEST) congo at imafexbb.sk wrote:

> Hi,
>     several months ago i was here subscribed and asked about why on my HP
> Nx9105 i cannot see mi wifi or tv card in lspci (it means the kernel
> modules for the cards didnt't worked too so did not the cards ;)),
> Then i answered myself that it is because of this patch
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2944 (ah thanks google).
> And I would like to ask why it is not in kernel (my last for now
> 2.6.12.5 and i still had to patch the kernel when it is know problem
> from 2.6.7 kernel) ? It is that nobody bothers about it or is some
> security problem that cannot be in stable kenrel or what ?
>                                                Jan Vongrej

The bugzilla entry says that the patch is included in 2.6.13-rc4
(or later).  Oh, it should also be in 2.6.13.
Have you tried any of those?

As far as being added to the "stable kernel" patches (2.6.12.n),
that doesn't appear likely at the moment, since

a) the 2.6.12.n series is now final (closed)
b) someone has to send the patch to stable at kernel.org for it to
   be considered for inclusion there -- did that happen?
c) does it fit the requirements for inclusion in the stable
   kernel?  (see Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt)

~Randy
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~Randy