From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH] softmac: Fix WX and association related races Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:04:10 +1000 Message-ID: <1159405450.9974.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <200609271726.34305.mb@bu3sch.de> <451AA446.7060009@lwfinger.net> <200609271950.47430.mb@bu3sch.de> <1159395803.18293.72.camel@localhost.localdomain> <451B1AB0.9020302@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael Buesch , linville@tuxdriver.com, Christian , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:12206 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964980AbWI1BJG (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:09:06 -0400 To: Larry Finger In-Reply-To: <451B1AB0.9020302@lwfinger.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 19:43 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >> > > I won't try some random other git tree to test things, it's simply not > > feasible for me and we need something we can give to distros to backport > > so they have something remotely stable (I'm thinking for example about > > the upcoming ubuntu edgy which is coming out soon an a 2.6.17 base). > > I don't know what your problem is! Despite your negative attitude, I have tried to accommodate you, > but obviously you do not appreciate my efforts. My big patch for 2.6.18 concentrated on bcm43xx. Yes > there were changes in softmac, but they had no major effect until Michael's fix of the race condition. > > The bottom line is that I have had it with you! You had best go back to some mainline kernel as you > will get no further help from me. There are lots of folks that need help _AND_ are appreciative of > that help. My time will be spent on them. Maybe because I'm a hot blooded asshole :) Note that I wasn't complaining about your patch (which is a bit huge tho for a stable release, but it did make a difference here along with Michael debug one). I just noticed that none of Michael last "final" patches would apply on 2.6.18 + your patch, and went into my usual rant in case they were supposed to apply to the wireless tree. There is a number of reasons why people can't just use a wireless-git or whatever else tree, and having something against mainline is the only way I see to get something to distros now, which is the way to fix the most people problems rather than only the ones finding this mailing list. Ben.