From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: commit 64ff3b938ec6782e6585a83d5459b98b0c3f6eb8 breaks rlogin
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:32:20 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902051530520.3048@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090205.152906.221253085.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, David Miller wrote:
>
> Herbert, please help Jeff try to track down the cause of this.
> If we can't figure it out soon I'll have to revert.
Why is there even any discussion?
URG is broken as a concept, no sane/modern use case exists. It's totally
uninteresting _except_ as a "legacy binary" issue, so
- there's no point in trying to "improve" it.
- even just a whiff of "breaks legacy app" just says "revert it".
No?
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-05 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <b6a2187b0902050641h7943816ds26275a320e724440@mail.gmail.com>
2009-02-05 23:29 ` commit 64ff3b938ec6782e6585a83d5459b98b0c3f6eb8 breaks rlogin David Miller
2009-02-05 23:32 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-02-05 23:38 ` David Miller
2009-02-05 23:52 ` Herbert Xu
[not found] ` <20090206031025.GA3281@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-02-06 5:39 ` Jeff Chua
2009-02-06 5:45 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-06 11:35 ` Jeff Chua
2009-02-09 5:58 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-09 6:03 ` David Miller
2009-02-09 6:11 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-09 7:13 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-02-09 7:28 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-09 7:33 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-09 13:28 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-02-21 13:24 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-21 18:54 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-02-22 7:53 ` David Miller
2009-02-24 6:40 ` Jeff Chua
2009-02-24 6:44 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-24 6:46 ` David Miller
2009-02-24 8:01 ` Jeff Chua
2009-02-09 14:10 ` Jeff Chua
2009-02-09 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-09 21:17 ` Herbert Xu
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