From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] wireless extensions improvements Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:18:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090625.161817.112930127.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090624113447.441667549@sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org To: johannes@sipsolutions.net Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:33600 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757816AbZFYXSM (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:18:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090624113447.441667549@sipsolutions.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Johannes Berg 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.