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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] loop.c: kernel_thread() retval check
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:58:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060820225823.GD602@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156115468.4051.80.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 12:11:08AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Llu, 2006-08-21 am 02:34 +0400, ysgrifennodd Solar Designer:
> > Do you really think that getting this fix into 2.4 should be delayed
> > like that? 
> 
> I have no problem with it going into 2.4. Someone should forward port it
> - but there should be plenty of people on the lists to do that.

That's so true ! We're relying too much on our own time while many people
might be waiting for some little work to start taking a look at the kernel
internals !

I think I will be starting to ask for forward porters for the fixed to 2.4
that need to be ported to 2.6 too.

Cheers,
Willy


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-20 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-19 23:46 [PATCH] loop.c: kernel_thread() retval check Solar Designer
2006-08-20  7:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-20 14:32   ` Solar Designer
2006-08-20 18:15 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-20 22:34   ` Solar Designer
2006-08-20 23:11     ` Alan Cox
2006-08-20 22:58       ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2006-08-21  1:59         ` Julio Auto
2006-08-21  2:32           ` Solar Designer
2006-08-21  2:47             ` Julio Auto

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