Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:59:50 +0100 | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] Re: WAN: new PPP code for generic HDLC | |
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:10:40 +0200
Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> > It never hurts to resend. It was 6000 patches ago and my mind is a blank.
>
> Sure, here is it. Some description, well:
>
> PPP support in generic HDLC in Linux 2.6.25 is broken and will cause
> a kernel panic when a device configured in PPP mode is activated.
>
> It will be replaced by new PPP implementation after Linux 2.6.25 is
> released.
Thats a pretty bad regression. Surely the correct fix is to revert the
change series that caused the breakage then re-merge that and fixes for
HDLC PPP for 2.6.26, not just leave it broken ?
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