On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:50:22AM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Dienstag, 26. Januar 2010 05:27:31 schrieb Greg KH: > > > Good point. But if that is considered critical enough then Dan's > > > original patch should go to stable instead of this one. And so should > > > the other 10+ DMA-to-stack patches in Greg's tree? > > > > Given the age of this bug (1999) and the fact that the devices are no > > longer made, I don't think this is -stable worthy. > > That's an odd form of reasoning. As the patch touches just this driver > it makes no difference if you don't have the hardware. If you have > the hardware on an architecture where it matters, this is no longer > true. > > Regards > Oliver There are 89 files that do dma on the stack in the -rc5 kernel. No one ever complains about it, so it can't be that serious. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
