On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 12:26 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 12:19:21 Johannes Berg wrote: > > Due to the way it interacts with the networking > > stack and other parts of mac80211, ieee80211_rx() > > must be called with disabled softirqs. > > Is this stated in the documentation somewhere? No. However, there are many things that aren't in the documentation, I'm working on a patch to add a note. > > Michael, the former maintainer of this driver, > > has refused to fix the problem this way instead > > proposing a much more invasive patch that could > > not even be proved correct wrt. locking inside > > mac80211. Regardless of that, he believes this > > to be a bug in mac80211, and has also publicly > > stated [1] that he does not care about this even > > though it is a regression introduced by his own > > patches. > > What if we leave slander out of the commit messages? As far as I know, it is an accurate account of what happened in the other thread, and as such is not slander. I just wanted to provide a rationale for me fixing this bug instead of you. If you disagree that this is an accurate representation, I invite you to summarise the thread that caused this miserable situation of a known bug not being fixed for a very long time despite appropriate fixes being known in your own words for the commit message. johannes
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