Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:06:10 -0400 | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | | Subject | Re: linux-next: Tree for July 30 |
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On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:50:31AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:11:09 -0400 > Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:10:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > If that works then great. But I think the printk could be improved. > > > Please provide sufficient information so that users (not programmers) > > > can go off and fix things up without needing to email kernel developers. > > > > > > One suitable approach would be > > > > > > printk("see http://userweb.kernel.org/~dtor/read-this.txt") > > > > > > > Ok, I made a small page here: > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~dtor/eviocgbit-bug.html > > You need to mv that file. It's actually at > http://userweb.kernel.org/~dtor/eviogcbit-bug.html > > And > > evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511, limiting output to 64 > bytes. See http://userweb.kernel.org/~dtor/eviocgbit-bug.html > > will get a 404. >
Fixed.
> typo: s/distribbution/distribution/ >
Fixed.
> The text looks good. A user would come away wondering which packages > need to be updated. Do we have a suitable text pattern whcih will help > them? > > On a fedora system I have > > y:/home/akpm> rpm -qa|grep -i syna > synaptics-0.14.6-2.fc8 > > So "the synaptics package" would be a suitably distro-neutral description. >
There is apparently Synaptic package manager - quite similar name - so I want to emphasize that we are concerned with a driver for X.
> `rpm -qa|grep -i tslib' comes up blank so I don't know about that one.
This is a touchscreen library that is used by embedded people. Unfortunately I have no idea where the authoritative source is.
> > > If you think this is sufficient I'd like to put the patch with the > > warning in 2.6.27 so people and distributions could start updarting > > affected programs. > > Sure. It'd make sense to get that warning into 2.6.25.x and 2.6.26.x > as well, to accelerate the process a bit. >
Ok, good.
-- Dmitry
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