Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751149AbZG1T5q (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:57:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750794AbZG1T5q (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:57:46 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:50339 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750786AbZG1T5p (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:57:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:56:48 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Alan Cox Cc: Linus Torvalds , OGAWA Hirofumi , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Ray Lee , LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken Message-ID: <20090728195648.GA4833@kroah.com> References: <87r5w19xsb.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20090728112203.7b70adba@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090728174213.5e927428@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090728180649.596c5412@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090728195651.3a402a31@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090728201553.0eb2d51d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090728201553.0eb2d51d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1446 Lines: 35 On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 08:15:53PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Quite frankly, I don't understand why I should even have to bring these > > issues up. You should have tried to fix the problem immediately, without > > arguing against fixing the kernel. Without blaming user space. Without > > making idiotic excuses for bad kernel behavior. > > > > The fact is, breaking regular user applications is simply not acceptable. > > Trying to blame kernel breakage on the app being "buggy" is not ok. And > > arguing for almost a week against fixing it - that's just crazy. > > I've been working on fixing it. I have spent a huge amount of time > working on the tty stuff trying to gradually get it sane without breaking > anything and fixing security holes along the way as they came up. I spent > the past two evenings working on the tty regressions. > > However I've had enough. If you think that problem is easy to fix you fix > it. > > Have fun. > > I've zapped the tty merge queue so anyone with patches for the tty layer > can send them to the new maintainer. Do you have a pointer to your previous queue before you zapped it so that others might be able to pick it up? thanks, greg k-h -- 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/