From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [patch for 2.6.31? 2/2] gigaset: really fix chars_in_buffer Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 20:50:30 -0700 Message-ID: <20090807035030.GA23938@kroah.com> References: <200908062219.n76MJXhY024495@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <20090806.202227.224933454.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, tilman@imap.cc To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:45019 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751395AbZHGEHA (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Aug 2009 00:07:00 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090806.202227.224933454.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 08:22:27PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: akpm@linux-foundation.org > Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:19:32 -0700 > > > From: Tilman Schmidt > > > > The tty_operation chars_in_buffer() is not allowed to return a negative > > value to signal an error. Corrects the problem flagged by commit > > 23198fda7182969b619613a555f8645fdc3dc334, "tty: fix chars_in_buffers". > > > > Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton > > I was letting Alan Cox handle changes in this area since it's > TTY stuff, and thus it probably should go to the new TTY > mad man, CC:'d :-) Thanks, I'll queue it up. greg k-h