linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken

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Message-ID: <20090728195648.GA4833@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:56:48 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 08:15:53PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > Quite frankly, I don't understand why I should even have to bring these 
> > issues up. You should have tried to fix the problem immediately, without 
> > arguing against fixing the kernel. Without blaming user space. Without 
> > making idiotic excuses for bad kernel behavior.
> > 
> > The fact is, breaking regular user applications is simply not acceptable. 
> > Trying to blame kernel breakage on the app being "buggy" is not ok. And 
> > arguing for almost a week against fixing it - that's just crazy.
> 
> I've been working on fixing it. I have spent a huge amount of time
> working on the tty stuff trying to gradually get it sane without breaking
> anything and fixing security holes along the way as they came up. I spent
> the past two evenings working on the tty regressions.
> 
> However I've had enough. If you think that problem is easy to fix you fix
> it.
> 
> Have fun.
> 
> I've zapped the tty merge queue so anyone with patches for the tty layer
> can send them to the new maintainer.

Do you have a pointer to your previous queue before you zapped it so
that others might be able to pick it up?

thanks,

greg k-h
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