Re: 2.6.38 kernel breaks userspace bluetooth management tools

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Apr 12 2011 - 12:02:56 EST


On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 08:47:10AM -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> On 04/11/2011 02:44 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 09:46:03PM +0000, Mikko Vinni wrote:
> >>Äsmail DÃnmez<ismail<at> namtrac.org> writes:
> >>>According to http://www.bluez.org/the-management-interface/ bluetooth
> >>>management interface has changed in the 2.6.38 kernel and this ends up
> >>>breaking bluetooth management tools (the ones that get your bluetooth
> >>>mouse working) in both KDE& Gnome ( see
> >>>https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680170 ).
> >>
> >>This sounds like http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg10695.html
> >>
> >>The fix is on its way. Nothing is deliberately broken.
> >>
> >>http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/padovan/bluetooth-next-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=b99faf1b798d6d0e33526fd2cef55a405c08ff09;hp=58b6e124aac64bebb2e9e1a136cbd21a5ab0485a
> >
> >That fix isn't in the -stable tree, and doesn't apply cleanly to the
> >.38-stable tree.
> >
> >Can someone provide a backport to stable@xxxxxxxxxx?
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >greg k-h
> >
>
>
> o.k my diff skills sucks, but(hopefully) backported correctly, sent
> out to stable@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> let me know if you get this or not(seems gmail is not showing my
> sent mail)..

I got it, and the backported patch, thanks. I'll queue it up in the
next round of stable patches.

greg k-h
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