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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] usb: io_edgeport: eliminate get_string()
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:21:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100126092112.GF3061@bicker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100125115333.GD3061@bicker>

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:50:22AM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 26. Januar 2010 05:27:31 schrieb Greg KH:
> > > Good point. But if that is considered critical enough then Dan's
> > > original patch should go to stable instead of this one. And so should
> > > the other 10+ DMA-to-stack patches in Greg's tree?
> > 
> > Given the age of this bug (1999) and the fact that the devices are no
> > longer made, I don't think this is -stable worthy.
> 
> That's an odd form of reasoning. As the patch touches just this driver
> it makes no difference if you don't have the hardware. If you have
> the hardware on an architecture where it matters, this is no longer
> true.
> 
> 	Regards
> 		Oliver

There are 89 files that do dma on the stack in the -rc5 kernel.  No one
ever complains about it, so it can't be that serious.

regards,
dan carpenter


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-26  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-25 11:53 [patch] usb: io_edgeport: eliminate get_string() Dan Carpenter
2010-01-25 16:57 ` Johan Hovold
2010-01-25 20:40 ` Greg KH
2010-01-25 20:41 ` Greg KH
2010-01-25 20:41 ` Greg KH
2010-01-25 20:54 ` Johan Hovold
2010-01-25 21:47 ` Oliver Neukum
2010-01-25 22:13 ` Johan Hovold
2010-01-26  4:27 ` Greg KH
2010-01-26  6:50 ` Oliver Neukum
2010-01-26  9:15 ` Dan Carpenter
2010-01-26  9:21 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-01-26  9:46 ` Johan Hovold

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