On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:20:30 +0200 Davidlohr Bueso <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 12:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:35:19 +0200 > > Davidlohr Bueso <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > > > > > Account for all properties when a and/or b are 0: > > > gcd(0, 0) = 0 > > > gcd(a, 0) = a > > > gcd(0, b) = b > > > > > > Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org > > > > Why cc:stable? If this patch fixes some known problem in the current > > kernel then that really really should have been described in the > > changelog. Always. Please. > > Ok, I will keep it in mind next time. No known problem (at least that I > know of), but due to the nature of the potential bug, I thought that it > was worth adding it to stable. OK. I'm not personally averse to fixing such problems in -stable, particualrly in lib/ code. After all, people who take -stable kernels will then change them and add drivers and backport changes from later kernels, etc. They might be bitten by such a bug. I'm scratching my head a bit at the patch though. What does gcd(0, 13) mean? That 0 can be divided by 13 zero times, which is an integer result? I wonder why any non-buggy code would do that.... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
