Re: PATCH to soundcard.c (was: Sound driver security hole?)

Itai Nahshon (nahshon@actcom.co.il)
Tue, 03 Feb 1998 01:44:59 +0200

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Right, I already said that I did not like it but
> > nobody really suggested a better alternative which is
> > local to the device driver.
>
> I've been away so I've not had time to look
>
> > A little off subject, I also said that fbmem.c may have
> > a similar problem but it is not even in the Makefile, and
> > surely cannot work after character device calls were
> > changed (sometime near Linux 2.1.60).
>
> fbmem.c may be old in the kernel you have relative to the master m68K
> tree its from.
>
> > Does anyone plan to use fbmem.c at all?
>
> All the m68K ports

Well, I hope the maintainer of fbmem.c is aware of the possible
problem.

Back to the sound driver, I have some pending patches, mainly
for mad16/ad1848/82C930 which I try to push (not too hard I admit).
I do not want to make anything which conflicts with other work
on the sound driver (mainly the excellent work of Thomas Sailer).
Files modified files are ad1848.c, ad1848_mixer.h, mad16.c,
sound_calls.h
and possibly very little changes in other places.
The change to ad1848_mixer.h is independent ant I already sent it
to the mailing list last Saturday but got zero response.
Thomas, Are you planning more changes to the sound driver?
Alan, Linus, If Thomas' changes re planned for integration to
a near "formal" kernel then it may be better that I wait. What
are the plans?

Itai

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