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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: Steven Walter <srwalter@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] unchecked request_region's in drivers/net
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:23:45 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011227202345.B30930@conectiva.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011227143812.A19635@hapablap.dyn.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011227143812.A19635@hapablap.dyn.dhs.org>

Em Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 02:38:12PM -0600, Steven Walter escreveu:
> This patch corrects the request_region calls in drivers/net to have
> their return value checked, and fail appropriately.  Additionally, the
> check_region calls have been removed where prudent.
> 
> I'd like volunteers to test and comment on the patch; if the general consensus is that it's good, I'd like to see it integrated.
> 
> Patch is against kernel 2.4.17, should apply to 2.5 as well.

Good job! But please consider splitting the patch per driver and sending it
to the respective maintainers.

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-27 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-27 20:38 [RFC][PATCH] unchecked request_region's in drivers/net Steven Walter
2001-12-27 22:23 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2001-12-27 22:44   ` Dave Jones
2001-12-27 22:51     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-12-27 23:25     ` James A Sutherland
2001-12-27 23:40       ` Dave Jones
2001-12-28  9:50         ` James A Sutherland
2001-12-28 11:14           ` Dave Jones
2001-12-27 23:31     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-12-27 23:40       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-12-28  0:11         ` Andreas Dilger
2001-12-28  0:25           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-12-27 23:51       ` Dave Jones
2001-12-28  0:14         ` Andreas Dilger
2001-12-28  0:42           ` Alan Cox
2001-12-28 18:34       ` Riley Williams
2001-12-28 18:48         ` Alan Cox
2001-12-28 19:38           ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-28 23:26             ` Alan Cox
2001-12-28 20:48           ` James A Sutherland
2001-12-28 20:34         ` Andreas Dilger
2001-12-28 21:23           ` Riley Williams
2001-12-29 18:21     ` Oliver Xymoron
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-28  7:21 Zwane Mwaikambo
2001-12-28 16:29 ` Alan Cox

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