From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753008AbXDUAKR (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:10:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752937AbXDUAKR (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:10:17 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:55200 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753008AbXDUAKP (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:10:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:09:58 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled -EINVAL for invalid timevals in setitimer Message-Id: <20070420170958.b388d949.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1176607762.3387.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070406102036.GF29169@stusta.de> <1175855360.28263.439.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070414150302.GF3691@stusta.de> <1176607762.3387.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:29:22 +0200 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 17:03 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > As scheduled, do_setitimer() now returns -EINVAL for invalid timeval. > > > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk > > Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Worried-about-by: me I guess if it starts biting people we can revert it from 2.6.22.x.