Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:12:26 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [GIT]: Networking |
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On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:34:05 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> > Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:31:23 +0100 > > >> 8) Locking fix in TTY based networking drivers, from Ralf Baechle. > > > > I thought we had established that this one was wrong following further > > discussion. The tty drivers that were calling up from IRQ handlers have > > been fixed by the cull of bogus tty->low_latency setting. > > Where was this change made? > > At a minimum it likely needs to be added to the -stable trees.
No - the fix that needs to be in the stable trees is the one removing the bogus tty->low_latency settings. The standard tty layer blows up in all sorts of other ways with these driver bugs and I thought they'd been pushed back into -stable. Will check with GregKH as I think they went via his tree.
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