Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755240AbZG0Vxt (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:53:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755213AbZG0Vxt (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:53:49 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:60727 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753175AbZG0Vxs (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:53:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:54:08 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Ray Lee , LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken Message-ID: <20090727225408.19e91e91@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1195 Lines: 29 On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:22:40 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > 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. Aneesh verified the tty->low_latency patch fixed emacs (Sunday mail in the thread "Re: [Regression] kdesu broken") -- 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/