From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Regression] kdesu broken
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:40:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090724164058.21a054e6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907241721.45943.rjw@sisk.pl>
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:21:45 +0200
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> On Friday 24 July 2009, Ray Lee wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki<rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> > > A recent kernel change broke kdesu (from KDE 4.2) on my test boxes. ISTR a
> > > discussion about that, but I can't find it right now. Any clues?
> >
> > See the thread starting here: ("possible regression with pty.c commit")
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/11/125
>
> Thanks for the pointer.
>
> Well, I thought we were expected to avoid breaking existing user space, even
> if that were buggy etc.
I don't know where you got that idea from. Avoiding breaking user space
unneccessarily is good but if its buggy you often can't do anything about
it.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-24 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-23 23:45 Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-07-24 0:21 ` Ray Lee
2009-07-24 15:21 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-07-24 15:40 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-07-24 16:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-25 6:04 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-07-25 13:31 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-25 14:05 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-25 14:55 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-07-25 15:32 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-26 11:51 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-07-27 10:57 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-27 12:07 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-07-27 12:46 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-07-27 13:23 ` [PATCH] " Alan Cox
2009-07-27 13:50 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-07-27 13:58 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-27 15:04 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-07-27 16:14 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-07-27 16:42 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-27 17:12 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-07-27 19:28 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-07-27 19:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-27 20:38 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-07-27 20:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-27 21:42 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-27 22:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-27 22:41 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-27 20:52 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-27 21:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-27 21:54 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-27 21:20 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-28 5:33 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-07-28 10:22 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-28 10:42 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-07-28 15:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-28 16:42 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-28 16:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-28 16:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-28 17:09 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-28 18:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-28 17:06 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-28 18:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-28 18:56 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-28 19:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-28 19:15 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-28 19:56 ` Greg KH
2009-07-28 20:47 ` Theodore Tso
2009-07-28 21:01 ` Greg KH
2009-07-28 22:02 ` Theodore Tso
2009-07-28 23:49 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-29 0:12 ` Greg KH
2009-07-30 23:16 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-30 23:24 ` Greg KH
2009-07-31 13:49 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-31 14:17 ` Greg KH
2009-07-28 23:46 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-29 0:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-29 0:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-29 7:01 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-07-29 0:34 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-29 1:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-29 1:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-29 11:17 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-29 8:59 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-29 15:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-29 15:55 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-29 16:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-29 16:39 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-29 19:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-29 2:50 ` Gene Heskett
2009-07-29 4:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-29 4:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-29 5:04 ` Gene Heskett
2009-07-29 5:00 ` Gene Heskett
2009-07-29 5:08 ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-29 7:46 ` Gene Heskett
2009-07-29 11:07 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-29 17:40 ` Gene Heskett
2009-07-29 18:28 ` Frans Pop
2009-07-29 18:43 ` Gene Heskett
2009-07-29 19:08 ` Frans Pop
2009-07-29 19:19 ` Gene Heskett
2009-07-30 12:43 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-07-30 15:35 ` Gene Heskett
2009-07-30 18:39 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-07-31 2:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-07-28 15:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-28 16:16 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-07-27 18:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-07-27 13:58 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-07-25 20:12 ` [Regression] " Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-07-26 17:41 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-07-29 2:20 ` Gene Heskett
2009-07-25 11:48 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-25 14:02 ` Frans Pop
2009-07-25 20:16 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-07-25 21:03 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-26 15:51 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-07-24 18:25 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-07-25 12:07 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-25 16:18 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-07-25 17:06 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-07-29 19:09 ` [Regression] kdesu broken, now usb fixed in current git pull Gene Heskett
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