Re: [PATCH] net: ppp_generic - fix broken userspace

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Sun Jan 11 2009 - 06:46:18 EST


[Paul Mackerras - Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 09:29:49PM +1100]
| David Miller writes:
|
| > PPP was converted to use IDR instead of PPP's duplicate
| > implementation.
| >
| > A bug was introduced in that conversion, and that bug is being fixed
| > here.
| >
| > What is not to like? :-)
|
| Ah OK, that sounds all right. I was reacting to the "broken
| userspace" in the patch description which at first glance seemed to be
| saying that userspace (i.e. pppd :) is doing something which has
| recently been declared to be wrong and therefore it is "broken".
|
| I think "fix broken userspace" as a patch headline is quite
| ambiguous. Something like "Fix bug in conversion to use IDR" would be
| more informative.
|
| Paul.
|

David, if you pick this patch could you rename
the subject then as Paul proposed? Or I should
resend the patch with new title?

To Paul: my bad, sorry. I thought like -- I broke
user-space pppd so it's broken now and lets fix
it -- here is "fix broken userspace" grown from :)

- Cyrill -
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