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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steve Fox <drfickle@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:21:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061211202131.GA9868@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612111204010.12500@woody.osdl.org>

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 12:05:36PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > 
> > Quick, compile tested, patch below.
> 
> No. We don't do this. We don't add TOTAL CRAP to the kernel just because 
> somebody is being an idiot in user space.
> 
> This is definitely a user space bug. It was a serious bug before, it just 
> wasn't obvious.
> 
> The thing is, if anybody runs SLES, they expect support. That's what the 
> "E" in "Enterprise" means.
> 
> So I would suggest SLES now show that support by fixing THEIR BUG.

I agree, it's SuSE's bug, not the kernel's issue.

I'll take this off-list with the SuSE developers to get this fixed.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-11 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-11 15:11 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least) Andy Whitcroft
2006-12-11 16:33 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 16:44   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 16:52     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 18:04       ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 18:18         ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 18:26           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 18:29             ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-12-11 18:43               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 18:55                 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 19:11                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 22:04                     ` Paul Mackerras
2006-12-11 22:04                       ` Paul Mackerras
2006-12-12  0:05                       ` David Miller
2006-12-12  0:05                         ` David Miller
2006-12-12  9:10                         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-12-12  9:10                           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-12-11 19:20                 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-12-11 19:36                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 22:42                     ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-12-11 19:37                   ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-12-11 19:56                   ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 20:05                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 20:09                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 20:21                       ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-12-11 20:16                     ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 20:15                   ` Theodore Tso
2006-12-11 20:23                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-11 21:16                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-11 18:49             ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-12 12:23             ` Mach-O binary format support and Darwin syscall personality [Was: uts banner changes] Kyle Moffett
2006-12-12 16:23               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 17:56                 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-12 18:20                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 22:34                     ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-12 22:38                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-12 22:57                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 22:21                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-15 12:53                   ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-11 17:50     ` 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least) Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 17:57       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-11 18:00         ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 18:08           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-11 18:14             ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 19:03               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-11 19:37               ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-11 18:19       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 18:40         ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 18:52           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 19:34     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-11 21:15     ` H. Peter Anvin

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