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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>,
	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: fix ieee80211_rx() context
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:35:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910111235.36986.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1255257066.4095.66.camel@johannes.local>

On Sunday 11 October 2009 12:31:06 Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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.

Ok, thanks a lot.

> I just wanted to provide a
> rationale for me fixing this bug instead of you.

Since when do we require that in commit messages?

> 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.

If you'd care _that_ much, you could have just reverted my commit.
Yes, I introduced the regression and I was unable to cook up a fix for it. So the logical
reaction to that would be to revert my commit.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-11 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-11 10:19 [PATCH] b43: fix ieee80211_rx() context Johannes Berg
2009-10-11 10:26 ` Michael Buesch
2009-10-11 10:31   ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-11 10:35     ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2009-10-12  7:27     ` Holger Schurig
2009-10-11 10:39 ` David Miller
2009-10-11 11:53   ` Dave Young
2009-10-11 15:59 ` Kalle Valo
2009-10-11 16:02   ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-11 16:08     ` Kalle Valo
2009-10-12  3:08       ` David Miller
2009-10-12  7:49         ` Kalle Valo
2009-10-12 12:29           ` Luciano Coelho
2009-10-12 13:38         ` John W. Linville
2009-10-12 20:08           ` David Miller

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