linux-kernel - Re: [ 01/82] Bluetooth: Always compile SCO and L2CAP in Bluetooth Core

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Message-Id: <20121114.163044.2287972932330697472.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:30:44 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gustavo@...ovan.org
Cc:	ben@...adent.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, ulisses@...fusion.mobi,
	marcel@...tmann.org, padovan@...fusion.mobi
Subject: Re: [ 01/82] Bluetooth: Always compile SCO and L2CAP in Bluetooth
 Core

From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:24:26 -0200

> Hi Ben,
> 
> * Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> [2012-11-14 05:39:34 +0000]:
> 
>> 3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>> 
>> ------------------
>> 
>> From: Ulisses Furquim <ulisses@...fusion.mobi>
>> 
>> commit f1e91e1640d808d332498a6b09b2bcd01462eff9 upstream.
>> 
>> The handling of SCO audio links and the L2CAP protocol are essential to
>> any system with Bluetooth thus are always compiled in from now on.
> 
> I wonder if this could not break any kind of script or code people have that
> refer directly to the sco and l2cap modules. Also I don't see this change as
> really necessary for 3.2.

Agreed, I wish this had not been merged into -stable, I would have never
submitted a patch like this myself.
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