On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 01:11:44AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Then read through the prepatch diffs, everything adding checks to > > ioctl methods or similar is likely one them. > > This approach does not scale.
Right, you got it. Similarly it doesn't scale to announce all these bits. Just take the latest upstream if you want these kinds of fixes. This is how every bigger upstream (and other projects like OpenBSD) work.
