On 11/01/17 10:17, Dave B wrote: > Any idea what sort of time scale (months/years?) It may take for the fix > to propagate (if it would do that) through all the various aggregation > processes so as to appear in the regular system updates for the various > distributions of Linux? I'm fairly sure there are lots of Arduino > users out there who use Linux who would very much appreciate it too, > assuming it does fix the problem...
It depends. The fix is isolated and not that risky, so would be a good candidate to backport in distros. This would be a standard procedure for them, so would be a valid request to them. thanks, Pádraig
