From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756133AbZBEXdg (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:33:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753269AbZBEXdE (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:33:04 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:58768 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752998AbZBEXdD (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:33:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:32:20 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: David Miller cc: jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: commit 64ff3b938ec6782e6585a83d5459b98b0c3f6eb8 breaks rlogin In-Reply-To: <20090205.152906.221253085.davem@davemloft.net> Message-ID: References: <20090205.152906.221253085.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, David Miller wrote: > > Herbert, please help Jeff try to track down the cause of this. > If we can't figure it out soon I'll have to revert. Why is there even any discussion? URG is broken as a concept, no sane/modern use case exists. It's totally uninteresting _except_ as a "legacy binary" issue, so - there's no point in trying to "improve" it. - even just a whiff of "breaks legacy app" just says "revert it". No? Linus