linux-kernel - Re: patch pty-quickfix-for-the-pty-enxio-timing-problems.patch added to 2.6.31-stable tree

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Date:	Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:35:56 +0200
From:	Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	alan@...ux.intel.com, stable@...nel.org,
	stable-commits@...r.kernel.org,
	"Frédéric L. W. Meunier" <fredlwm@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Boyan <btanastasov@...oo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: patch pty-quickfix-for-the-pty-enxio-timing-problems.patch added
 to 2.6.31-stable tree

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Greg KH wrote:
>> Hm, ok, Marcin asked that I include this patch as it fixed his keyboard
>> problems with X on 2.6.31.
>>
>> Marcin, any ideas?
> 
> Get current -git, I think it shoul be fixed there properly.
> 
> Marking the pty's "low_latency" works around the problem, but will break 
> at least ppp.
> 
> 		Linus

Greg, I see you queued c8e33141911bf8fe87dc6c92793b9a59b2be0130
(tty: Make flush_to_ldisc() locking more robust) for stable, so I guess
you figured out it was not my problems with keyboard (*), but Boyan's
and Frédéric's.

* http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/12/465

Marcin

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