linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.18-rc6

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Date:	Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:33:09 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Jody Belka <lists-lkml@...b.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.18-rc6

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 04:04:33PM +0100, Jody Belka wrote:
> Upgrading to this causes my copy of hal (0.5.3-0ubuntu14) to fail to start.
> Bisecting tracked it down to the following commit. Reverting just this patch
> against 2.6.18-rc6 gets things working again.
> 
> 
> 9bde7497e0b54178c317fac47a18be7f948dd471 is first bad commit
> commit 9bde7497e0b54178c317fac47a18be7f948dd471
> Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> Date:   Wed Jun 14 12:14:34 2006 -0700
> 
>     [PATCH] USB: make endpoints real struct devices
> 
>     This will allow for us to give endpoints a major/minor to create a
>     "usbfs2-like" way to access endpoints directly from userspace in an
>     easier manner than the current usbfs provides us.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

Yes, this exposed a bug in HAL where it was overflowing an internal
buffer.  Please upgrade to the latest version, it has been fixed for a
few months now.

thanks,

greg k-h
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