Kernel package status
Simon Weller
simon at nzservers.com
Thu Jun 24 15:32:59 UTC 2004
On Thursday 24 June 2004 10:25 am, David Botsch wrote:
> Other than breaking ethtool, does the patch currently there break
> anything?
There was no log on it, so I'm assuming not...having said that I could be very
wrong ;-)
It does appear just to be an issue with ethtool not getting the returned data
back.
- Si
>
> 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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