From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753286AbYHGTG3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:06:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755451AbYHGTGS (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:06:18 -0400 Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.29]:57481 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752901AbYHGTGQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:06:16 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=ZGypsNgdthu5kZC6qknxcK5xEwV1CrOplTOrF99ojZlU6MNacaKeY/ReNqPXVTKpxr kg3WhZBGXh3Cny+CVgVXPRkfvN+N4qYWIiEOXG+tt6QIqE8bWggWaA5IakJljFj+kyt5 HscLRkTAcQtjGzrtOfJaS25FkWtjxWBQfcFbk= Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:06:10 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Andrew Morton Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, rjw@sisk.pl, bzolnier@gmail.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for July 30 Message-ID: <20080807150231.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> References: <20080731104437.5e5669bc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080731141302.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> <200807312048.57575.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080731145023.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> <20080731151625.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> <20080731194207.GA12233@anvil.corenet.prv> <20080731131056.eecc4826.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080807140357.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> <20080807115031.6e136ecf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080807115031.6e136ecf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:50:31AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:11:09 -0400 > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > 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 > > You need to mv that file. It's actually at > http://userweb.kernel.org/~dtor/eviogcbit-bug.html > > And > > evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511, limiting output to 64 > bytes. See http://userweb.kernel.org/~dtor/eviocgbit-bug.html > > will get a 404. > Fixed. > typo: s/distribbution/distribution/ > Fixed. > The text looks good. A user would come away wondering which packages > need to be updated. Do we have a suitable text pattern whcih will help > them? > > On a fedora system I have > > y:/home/akpm> rpm -qa|grep -i syna > synaptics-0.14.6-2.fc8 > > So "the synaptics package" would be a suitably distro-neutral description. > There is apparently Synaptic package manager - quite similar name - so I want to emphasize that we are concerned with a driver for X. > `rpm -qa|grep -i tslib' comes up blank so I don't know about that one. This is a touchscreen library that is used by embedded people. Unfortunately I have no idea where the authoritative source is. > > > 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. > > Sure. It'd make sense to get that warning into 2.6.25.x and 2.6.26.x > as well, to accelerate the process a bit. > Ok, good. -- Dmitry