Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2004-10-27 at 20:50, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 at 16:27 +0100 Alan Cox wrote:
> > You missed the remote DoS attack 8(
>   Where?

Posted to netdev along with fixes. See 2.6.9-ac1 or later

> >>   - i8042 fails to initialize with some boards using legacy USB
> >
> > This is really a BIOS issue and its not a new 2.6.9 bug its a long
> > standing and messy story.
> 
>   And the patch in -ac fixes it but there is a cleaner one around
> that does it more properly, right?

The -ac fix handles one corner case. The right fix appears to be to
always disable USB legacy. But for a small fix its mighty risky.

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