From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Jody Belka <lists-lkml@pimb.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.18-rc6
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:33:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060912223309.GA9271@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060912150433.GB2808@pimb.org>
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 04:04:33PM +0100, Jody Belka wrote:
> Upgrading to this causes my copy of hal (0.5.3-0ubuntu14) to fail to start.
> Bisecting tracked it down to the following commit. Reverting just this patch
> against 2.6.18-rc6 gets things working again.
>
>
> 9bde7497e0b54178c317fac47a18be7f948dd471 is first bad commit
> commit 9bde7497e0b54178c317fac47a18be7f948dd471
> Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> Date: Wed Jun 14 12:14:34 2006 -0700
>
> [PATCH] USB: make endpoints real struct devices
>
> This will allow for us to give endpoints a major/minor to create a
> "usbfs2-like" way to access endpoints directly from userspace in an
> easier manner than the current usbfs provides us.
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Yes, this exposed a bug in HAL where it was overflowing an internal
buffer. Please upgrade to the latest version, it has been fixed for a
few months now.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-12 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-12 15:04 Linux 2.6.18-rc6 Jody Belka
2006-09-12 22:33 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-09-12 23:11 ` Jody Belka
2006-09-13 0:42 ` Jody Belka
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-04 2:42 Linus Torvalds
2006-09-04 11:05 ` Gene Heskett
2006-09-04 22:31 ` Steffen Klassert
2006-09-05 0:17 ` Gene Heskett
2006-09-05 16:04 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-09-05 20:02 ` Gene Heskett
2006-09-22 9:10 ` Konstantin Kletschke
2006-09-05 12:26 ` Olaf Hering
2006-09-05 12:45 ` maximilian attems
2006-09-05 18:56 ` Greg KH
2006-09-05 19:01 ` maximilian attems
2006-09-05 21:50 ` Greg KH
2006-09-05 21:01 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-05 22:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-05 23:22 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-06 0:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-06 12:09 ` Olaf Hering
2006-09-06 11:01 ` Olaf Hering
2006-09-06 14:04 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-07 9:15 ` Olaf Hering
2006-09-07 14:04 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-16 3:47 ` Doug Ledford
2006-09-16 8:44 ` Olaf Hering
2006-09-17 5:38 ` Olaf Hering
2006-09-17 14:05 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-17 18:17 ` Doug Ledford
2006-09-17 18:20 ` Doug Ledford
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