On 11/02/2007 12:58 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:48:34AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled >>> >>> Subject: Remove broken ptrace() special-case code from file mapping >> Hmm. I think my patch is good, but Nick's patch is probably safer for a >> stable release. >> >> Mine cleans things up, and removes a rather nasty special case entirely. >> But in the process, it changes user-visible behaviour (for the better, I >> think, but still). >> >> Now, probably nobody cares about the behaviour change, but Nicks patch >> fixes the old broken special case instead of removing it. >> >> Now, it might be perfectly fine to just queue this one on the assumption >> that nobody will really care, and doing a cleanup is better. But I wanted >> to point out the (small) danger. > > I don't see Nick's patch in your tree, and I'd like to keep in sync > wherever possible :) > > Unless Nick really objects, and then I'll drop yours and use his, but I > don't think that Duane verified that his patch fixed the issue. >
I put Nick's in Fedora, so it had better work... ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
