Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754958AbZG0VXY (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:23:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752187AbZG0VXY (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:23:24 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:56638 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751484AbZG0VXX (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:23:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:22:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Alan Cox cc: OGAWA Hirofumi , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Ray Lee , LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken In-Reply-To: <20090727215250.034f7d4b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20090725163251.50e6f546@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <87bpn7mzli.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20090727115723.1e8de60e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <873a8iqqgv.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20090727142303.41096bf5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <877hxujkuv.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20090727145805.690afe5d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <87fxci6ub9.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20090727161424.GA4233@skywalker> <20090727174252.2d987830@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090727171213.GB4233@skywalker> <87skgikjr8.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20090727215250.034f7d4b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 957 Lines: 24 On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote: > > Nor can we revert several patches because the ppp stuff means going back > to about 2.6.28 or so for the entire tty layer plus some of the DoS and > null pointer races go back to 2.2 or 2.0 8(. The thing is, breaking ppp and reverting at least to 2.6.30 behavior. Since it's better than the _current_ breakage. > We can use the two line slightly imperfect quickfix which people reported > does fix their problem and I'm tempted to go with that for 2.6.31 because > it works for the real world cases that matter. Umm. Which ones? People have reported kdesu and emacs breaking. Last I saw, the emacs breakage wasn't fixed by any of the patches seen so far. Linus -- 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/