Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:34:46 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.4.15-pre9 |
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Quite frankly, right now I'm in "handle only bugs that can crash the > system mode". Anything that takes 497 days to see is fairly low on my > priority list. My highest priority, in fact, is to get 2.4.15 out without > any embarrassment.
Umm... a) /proc/interrupts has buffer overflows. b) I have a patch that should fix them (conversion to seq_file, done for all architectures) c) while completely straightforward, it's large (every subarchitecture of m68k and mips seems to have its own get_irq_list()) and may contain typos in architectures I've no access to. d) holes had been there for quite a while and it's either "cat /proc/interrupts always causes memory corruption" or "everything OK"
I'm not quite sure where it is - if we were in -pre<small> I'd definitely say that it's worth merging, so that trivial typos could be caught before the release; the hole obviously deserves fixing. OTOH, merging that in -final means that we are risking "2.4.15 doesn't compile on <architecture>"...
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