On Fri July 18 2003 19:07, 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. ok, they are on the cc, so they see it :) > > > ps: a 2.6 version will follow soon... > > I could give that one a spin. just finished it, compiler finished about 2.5 minutes ago...sending now > > Keep up the good work ! > > Jean > rgds, -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
