Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"

Alan Cox
2004-10-27T22:55:02Z

On Mer, 2004-10-27 at 20:50, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 at 16:27 +0100 Alan Cox wrote:
> > You missed the remote DoS attack 8(
> Where?

Posted to netdev along with fixes. See 2.6.9-ac1 or later

> >> - i8042 fails to initialize with some boards using legacy USB
> >
> > This is really a BIOS issue and its not a new 2.6.9 bug its a long
> > standing and messy story.
>
> And the patch in -ac fixes it but there is a cleaner one around
> that does it more properly, right?

The -ac fix handles one corner case. The right fix appears to be to
always disable USB legacy. But for a small fix its mighty risky.