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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
Cc: tiwai@suse.de, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	Laurent Navet <laurent.navet@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: line6: fix possible overrun
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 01:44:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140427224425.GQ26890@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140427200042.GA23846@mguzik.redhat.com>

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 10:00:43PM +0200, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> > >  and a WARN_ON + -EINVAL in line6_init_audio to catch future
> > >  offenders.
> > 
> > Returning -EINVAL is a bad idea because it would break the driver
> > completely and make it unusable.
> > 
> 
> Well I would vote for returning the error anyway.

I'm trying to be polite, but you are talking about adding regressions
deliberately...

It's very rare for people to deliberately add regressions to the kernel.
I have only seen it one time before.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-27 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-26 17:09 [PATCH] staging: line6: fix possible overrun Laurent Navet
2014-04-26 20:47 ` Mateusz Guzik
2014-04-26 21:36   ` Dan Carpenter
2014-04-26 21:59     ` Mateusz Guzik
2014-04-27 17:39       ` Dan Carpenter
2014-04-27 19:05         ` Laurent Navet
2014-04-27 20:00         ` Mateusz Guzik
2014-04-27 22:44           ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2014-04-29 14:47             ` Takashi Iwai
2014-04-29 15:02               ` Dan Carpenter
2014-04-29 15:26               ` Mateusz Guzik
2014-04-29 17:28                 ` Dan Carpenter

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