Re: Look Ma, da kernel is b0rken

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sat Dec 08 2012 - 18:04:17 EST


On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 11:52:34 +0100
Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 08:36:34AM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > And that demand actually applies to both the '@' change (questionable)
> > and the much less disputed (obviously correct) wrong conditional
> > fixup, since both introduce a notable change (either large, or
> > possibly improper) in behaviour.
>
> Well, I think Alan's fix is obviously correct and doesn't necessarily
> need confirmation. But it will have ~3 months verification time in 3.8,
> just in case.

And to answer the question '@' is used in ISAPnP. Whether it is valid is
a rather different question 8)

Alan
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