linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] integer overflow issue in 'appletouch' driver

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Date:	Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:36:02 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	Vadim Zaliva <lord@...codile.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Serge Belyshev <belyshev@...ni.sinp.msu.ru>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] integer overflow issue in 'appletouch' driver

On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 09:33 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> > I'd rather roll the patch back for now. I'll send the revert as part of
> > the next powerpc update. We'll sort things out then.
> 
> I'll be sending pull request to Linus this evening and should take care of
> this as well. I guess we need to pull it out of stable as well since Vadim's
> thouchpad was usable even with older code but some touchpads are completely
> broken now.

Right.

> We can re-instate the fix later when we make sure it works fr everyone.

Yup. BTW. The pull request I sent to Linus yesterday has a revert for
that. Can you take care of stable ?

Thanks !

Cheers,
Ben.

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