fedora kernel question (and patch?)
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at redhat.com
Tue Nov 8 19:23:35 UTC 2011
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 08:19:07PM +0100, Brendan Jones wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I know you guys follow upstream pretty closely, but under what
> circumstances would Fedora consider applying a patch to the kernel which
> might be not be in the current merge tree? For context I give you this one?
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=131973404328622
It's acked by one of the USB maintainers, so that goes a long way.
> Mostly I'm curious, I'll be applying it local anyway
I saw a bug comment go flying by pointing to this same patch, but I
can't recall what bug it was. Did you point to this in a bug, if so
which one?
Since you're applying it locally, I'm wondering if you can let us know
if it solves that particular bug.
josh
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