On Saturday 2012-07-07 23:19, Kay Sievers wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Linus Torvalds
> wrote:
>> Kay, this needs to be fixed.
>>
>> Suggested fix: just use the 'seq_printf()' interfaces, which do the
>> proper buffering, and allow any size reads of various packetized data.
>
>I'll hav
On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 23:19 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Linus Torvalds
> wrote:
> > Kay, this needs to be fixed.
> >
> > Suggested fix: just use the 'seq_printf()' interfaces, which do the
> > proper buffering, and allow any size reads of various packetized data.
>
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Jukka Ollila wrote:
> And I did a little digging. According to the Debian package tracking
> system[1] it would seem that the _stable_ distro carries a version
> that doesn't do the dd shuffling at all and probably runs its klogd as
> root, reading /proc/kmsg direc
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
> Kay, this needs to be fixed.
>
> Suggested fix: just use the 'seq_printf()' interfaces, which do the
> proper buffering, and allow any size reads of various packetized data.
I'll have a look.
> Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Jukka Ollila wrote:
>
> Now this got me wondering if Debian _unstable_ actually qualifies as a
> standard distro userspace.
Oh, if the kernel breaks some standard user space, that counts. Tons
of people run Debian unstable (and from my limited interactions with
it,
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:45:44 +0300
> Jukka Ollila wrote:
>> A few days ago I filed a kernel regression report concerning a change
>> in /proc/kmsg behaviour with short reads:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44211
>> I don't know
Kay, this needs to be fixed.
Suggested fix: just use the 'seq_printf()' interfaces, which do the
proper buffering, and allow any size reads of various packetized data.
Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it
was a good idea to read things ONE F*CKING BYTE AT A TIME
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