On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:06:50PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > Jean Tourrilhes wrote : > > Johannes Berg discovered that kernel space was leaking to > > userspace on 64 bit platform. He made a first patch to fix that. This > > is an improved version of his patch. > > This was tested on 2.6.21-rc4. Would you mind pushing that > > upstream ? > > Just FYI. This patch applies with rejects in net/core/rtnetlink.c and > net/core/wireless.c to wireless-dev. The changes in those two files can > be ignored completely since they affect only the removed > wext-over-netlink interface. > > johannes I'm sorry to have to write this e-mail. But this incident is completely opposed to the ideal of FreeSoftware/OpenSource and demonstrate some of the bad politics happening in Linux. First, I'm the current active maintainer of the wext-over-netlink interface, and nobody bothered to even 'inform' me about its removal, let alone consult with me. This shows a complete lack of courtesy and a total disrespect to the concept of maintainer, basically some people are just second class citizens. Second, there is no technical justification to such decision, it's just plain politics. I would agree that for the vast majority of people, this API was useless, as any work in progress. But, it is maintained (by me), it is not causing any technical issue, for those people it's not compiled in (i.e. no bloat), it is not causing bugs and not preventing other code to be merged in the kernel. Therefore a purely politic decision. Now, I've got a problem with your attitude in this matter, Johannes. It's now the second time you remove features from code I maintain by pure fiat, and you have engaged in a long running FUD campain about my code. This is totally disgraceful of a Linux maintainer, and you should know it. If the only way you have to promote your code is by actively destroying my code, then you have a real issue. Your code should stand on its own merit, without the need of attacking other people's work and playing political tricks. I hope you will note that I never disparaged your code, I never prevented its inclusion in Linux and I never attempted to control the Linux Wireless space and left plenty of space for new developpers. You still have a lot to learn, like all of us. You still don't understand Wireless Extensions (as your FUD shows) and why it's still so popular despite all its warts. You don't get the value of not burning bridges with other developpers and professional conduct. By the way : don't bother replying to this e-mail, nothing good will come of it. Have fun... Jean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
