Re: linux-next: Tree for July 30

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Thu Aug 07 2008 - 14:11:28 EST


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

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.

--
Dmitry
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