On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 06:52 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 14:01 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> [ . . . ]
> > This is the world where there is an ever-growing number of bugs open on
> > the kernel package.  We certainly don't have the resources to
> > investigate bugs in other systems.
> 
> Understood.
> 
> There is now a report (on the Netgear forum) that the same problem is
> afflicting Linksys WRT120N as well as Netgear DGN3500, but I cannot
> testify as to the veracity of the claim, only that the claim is being
> made.
> 
> If it turns out that various different products from various
> manufacturers are affected, then doesn't this make it an issue deserving
> investigation?

Yes, I think I'd reopen the bug.  However it would then need to be
handled upstream.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be
development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. - Bill Gates

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