Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751160AbWHBO63 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:58:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751167AbWHBO63 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:58:29 -0400 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:51418 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751160AbWHBO62 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:58:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:58:26 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Hubert Tonneau Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc3 In-Reply-To: <06AZVN211@briare1.heliogroup.fr> References: <06AZVN211@briare1.heliogroup.fr> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.0 (Your Wildest Dreams) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.5 (beta25) (eggplant) (+CVS-20060326) (i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1472 Lines: 38 At Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:35:26 GMT, Hubert Tonneau wrote: > > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > Do you really get Oops with 2.6.17-final, too? > > AFAIK, there was a bug in the early 2.6.17-rc regarding OSS emulation, > > but it got fixed in the later rc. > > I confirm that the only oops I got was with 2.6.17-rc1 > > > The behavior of invalid O_* flag seems incompatible with the older > > version. Although I don't think it's totally wrong behavior, surely > > better to keep the compatibility. The patch below should fix it. > > I don't care: I have changed my player. > I also tend to agree that opening /dev/dsp read write was not a good > idea, so I would not criticise the new behaviour. Well, incompatibility is worse in most cases than rationality. Could you test the patch really fixes your case, so that I can push it to 2.6.17-stable tree? > Each version of Linux 2.6 tend to break some softwares due to subtil > changes. What is bad is that these changes tend to be not announced, > but on the other hand the kernel mailing list is very responsive, > so all in all it might be a reasonable way to go. It was an unintentioal change, so it's not somthing to be announced ;) It's a thing just to be fixed. Takashi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/