On di, 2015-07-14 at 01:58 +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 14.07.2015 um 01:14 schrieb Peter Hurley: > > That commit didn't cause the problem; it was a bug all along. > > Sure. That's why it is correctly fixed in the Gigaset driver. > But before that commit the bug was never actually triggered. > So that commit defines the point in the commit history from > which the fix is needed, and therefore needs to be mentioned > in order to decide which stable releases will need the fix.
Yes, this seems a classic example of a bugfix that reveals another bug. So the Fixes: tag, which does sound a bit awkward, really is appropriate. For ser-gigaset about the only line discipline change that will be triggered, in practice, is from N_TTY to N_GIGASET_M101. Until commit 79901317ce80 ("n_tty: Don't flush buffer when closing ldisc") that change would set receive_room to N_TTY_BUF_SIZE (ie, 4096). This patch will set receive_room for ser-gigaset to RBUFSIZE/2 (ie, again 4096). So we're back at the pre v3.10 behavior. I'm really thankful that Tilman managed to bisect this and subsequently saw how it could be properly fixed. I hope to forward this patch in a few weeks so that it might finally be fixed in v4.3. Applied. Paul Bolle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html