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Re: [PATCH 0/3] wireless extensions improvements

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:34:47 +0200

> This series contains three improvements to wireless
> extensions:
>  1) make them network namespace aware, as discussed
>     previously
>  2) optimise the event sending code and fix a small
>     heap information leak
>  3) do some generic work and make it possible to send
>     compat netlink events, and make wext do this
> 
> Because the third patch depends on the first two (it
> could be made not to, if you wish) but touches generic
> networking stuff, I'd like to have all of these included
> in net-next instead of John's wireless tree, all the
> other wireless work can be done independently of these.

These changes look fine to me, so I'll likely put them into
net-next-2.6 as soon as I open that up.

FWIW, I bet we could make read() easily work properly to for the
compat stuff, and it would be nice to shore up that one minor hole.
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