On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:07:55AM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > Daniel Ritz wrote : > > in 2.4.20+ airo.c is broken and can even kill keventd. this patch fixes it: > > - sane locking with spinlocks and irqs disabled instead of the buggy locking > > with semaphores > > - fix transmit code > > - safer unload ordering of disable irq, unregister_netdev, kfree > > - fix possible loop-forever bug > > - fix a buffer overflow > > Wow ! Tremendous work ! > > I would like you to do two things for me : > 1) Contact Javier Achirica to get his comments on the patch > and get permission on the sourceforge CVS for yourself (if you want > that). > 2) Contact Mike Kershaw (of Kismet fame) who seems to have > been working on airo.c lately. FWIW Javier just sent me a tarball of patches to apply, so we all definitely need to stay in sync. Jeff - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
