From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: johannes@sipsolutions.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] wireless extensions improvements
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:18:17 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090625.161817.112930127.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090624113447.441667549@sipsolutions.net>
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:34:47 +0200
> This series contains three improvements to wireless
> extensions:
> 1) make them network namespace aware, as discussed
> previously
> 2) optimise the event sending code and fix a small
> heap information leak
> 3) do some generic work and make it possible to send
> compat netlink events, and make wext do this
>
> Because the third patch depends on the first two (it
> could be made not to, if you wish) but touches generic
> networking stuff, I'd like to have all of these included
> in net-next instead of John's wireless tree, all the
> other wireless work can be done independently of these.
These changes look fine to me, so I'll likely put them into
net-next-2.6 as soon as I open that up.
FWIW, I bet we could make read() easily work properly to for the
compat stuff, and it would be nice to shore up that one minor hole.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-25 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-24 11:34 [PATCH 0/3] wireless extensions improvements Johannes Berg
2009-06-24 11:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] wireless extensions: make netns aware Johannes Berg
2009-06-24 11:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] wext: optimise, comment and fix event sending Johannes Berg
2009-06-24 11:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks Johannes Berg
2009-07-01 21:26 ` [PATCH 3/3 v3] " Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1246483562.8154.11.camel-YfaajirXv2244ywRPIzf9A@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-15 16:08 ` David Miller
2009-06-25 23:18 ` David Miller [this message]
[not found] ` <20090625.161817.112930127.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-26 5:46 ` [PATCH 0/3] wireless extensions improvements John W. Linville
2009-06-26 20:12 ` Johannes Berg
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