Kernel package status

[David Botsch]

Other than breaking ethtool, does the patch currently there break 
anything?

On 2004.06.23 21:44 Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:16:29PM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
>  > On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 20:44, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>  > > Possibly not a very critical bug (I do not know that really)
>  > > but a bug nevertheless.  It does not look that regs.len is
>  > > used very extensively.  Presumably it is set in a preceding
>  > > copy_from_user() call and not used really in any other place.
>  >
>  > Ethtool is expecting bytes there, so it looks to me that the
> revised
>  > patch is necessary for "ethtool -d" to return correct data...
> 
> This was the reason I changed it in the Fedora kernel.
> The version of the patch you have was in the fedora kernel for
> a while too, I silently fixed it up in the next revision
> (as it only hit -testing). Looks like you picked it up before
> I fixed it up.  Good job someone was paying attention 8)
> In future, I'll try and give you a heads up if I change something
> like that again without making extra changelog entries.
> 
> 		Dave
> 
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