Comment 13 for bug 994931

@Malcolm

Just curious if you sent your patch upstream as of yet? If you have, what sort of feedback has it received, is it getting applied to a subsystem maintainer's tree, etc?

People affected by this bug are probably wondering why the kernel team doesn't just apply the patch and fix it. The reason is that the kernel team is reluctant (not opposed) to apply any patch to a stable kernel that is not from upstream. Applying patches that don't come from upstream add greatly to the support of the kernel as other upstream patches may touch the same area as the non-upstream patch and may prevent them from applying cleanly.