Re: 2.6.18-mm2 - oops in cache_alloc_refill()

Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-05T22:46:38Z

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 06:37:53PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 09:34 -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > I don't really want to overstep my authority there, my goal
> > was to minimise the changes. Pavel will have to clean up my mess, so I
> > don't want change things too much.
>
> Sorry for a long delay.

That's ok, we all have a real life ;-)

> I'm actually not very interested in the Wireless Extension interface of
> the driver. The less I touch that code, the better I feel. I won't add
> to the criticism for the latest changes; enough has been said.
>
> Its fine with me that your are changing the orinoco driver to update
> Wireless Extensions compatibility.
>
> I'm trying to maintain a Subversion repository with the driver modified
> to be compatible with a few latest kernels. But it looks like it's an
> uphill battle that I'm not going to win.

I'll try to come up with a patch for you. It's not as bad as
it looks like. It will look like the patch for the external ipw
drivers I sent on the list.

> Pavel Roskin

Have fun...

Jean