crappy mouse patch from security perspective
Hi all,
I'm no programmer and nor technically too advanced. Hence
looking for people's guidance.
I have a mouse which is crappy and for which I had filed a bug
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607242
A gentleman, Mr. Jim Hill pursued the bug and posted a patch for the
same which he seems to also have put up upstream.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607242#107
He has asked me to try a new kernel and patch it with the above patch.
While I'm quite sure that Mr. Jim Hill has the noblest of intentions
otherwise he wouldn't have put the code in public domain on a bug.
But as I'm not a programmer hence would like the debian community to
take a look at that , see if there are any inadverant goof-ups or
anything before I take the plunge of applying the patch.
Looking forward for guidance.
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Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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