Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:54:08 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken |
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On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:22:40 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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")
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