On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 16:06 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 02:31:18PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > These are all included in Debian's 2.6.32-y kernels.  Aside from the
> > last 5, they are present in the current stable release (Debian 6.0.1,
> > linux-2.6 version 2.6.32-31).
> > 
> > I have named them all according to the convention used in the stable
> > queue, and added a 'series' file to keep them in order.
> > 
> > Many of them will be applicable to later stable/longterm series, but the
> > upstream commits should be used as reference for this.
> 
> Thanks.  I've queued up all but 4 of these:

And I finally got back to this point in my to-do list.

>       revert-usb-prevent-buggy-hubs-from-crashing-the-usb-.patch
>               This was rejected as I applied the correct musb patch to
>               resolve the issue

Right, that's better.

>       tty-fix-warning-in-synclink-driver.patch
>       tty-icount-changeover-for-other-main-devices.patch
>       tty-make-tiocgicount-a-handler.patch
>               These are all very big for a -longterm kernel, for no
>               real benifit.  Yes, you might have a few random bits in
>               the tty structure passed to userspace, but I fail to see
>               any security problems with this.  Unless you know of
>               some?

Yes, it does look like a minor benefit.

> thanks so much for these, they are much appreciated.

Likewise (even if I quibble over some patches :-).

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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