Re: [GIT]: Networking

Alan Cox
2009-07-14T20:11:35Z

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:34:05 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:31:23 +0100
>
> >> 8) Locking fix in TTY based networking drivers, from Ralf Baechle.
> >
> > I thought we had established that this one was wrong following further
> > discussion. The tty drivers that were calling up from IRQ handlers have
> > been fixed by the cull of bogus tty->low_latency setting.
>
> Where was this change made?
>
> At a minimum it likely needs to be added to the -stable trees.

No - the fix that needs to be in the stable trees is the one removing the
bogus tty->low_latency settings. The standard tty layer blows up in all
sorts of other ways with these driver bugs and I thought they'd been
pushed back into -stable. Will check with GregKH as I think they went via
his tree.