Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:56:48 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken |
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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
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