From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261798AbUEJXxa (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 19:53:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262079AbUEJXxa (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 19:53:30 -0400 Received: from pimout2-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.101]:44247 "EHLO pimout2-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261798AbUEJXxS (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 19:53:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:53:12 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Andrew Morton Cc: hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.6-mm1 Message-ID: <20040510235312.GA9348@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <20040510024506.1a9023b6.akpm@osdl.org> <20040510223755.A7773@infradead.org> <20040510150203.3257ccac.akpm@osdl.org> <20040510231146.GA5168@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040510162818.376b4a55.akpm@osdl.org> <20040510233342.GA5614@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040510165132.5107472e.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040510165132.5107472e.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 04:51:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Maybe that's the price we pay for leaving this problem unsolved for > a year. I didn't know it needed solving until recently. I guess I've been under a rock or something then. > You misunderstand. Nasty workarounds will be shipped to end users > by vendors. That's a certainty. We cannot change this now. Vendors will support this too presumably. > What I wish to do is to ensure that all users receive the *same* > nasty workaround. Call it damage control. How urgent is this? Can it wait a few more weeks? It seems people are new looking at this and a little more discussion won't hurt if it's been a year already. --cw