On Fri July 18 2003 19:21, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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. if these are the patches from cvs, that was the next step i wanted to do, once that one is commited. (patches in mail from are also good for me...) > > Jeff > -daniel - : 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
