Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Jul 27 2009 - 17:53:54 EST


On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:22:40 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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