Re: [GIT]: Networking [LWN.net]

From:		Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-linux-foundation.org>
To:		Alex Williamson <alex.williamson-AT-hp.com>
Subject:		Re: [GIT]: Networking
Date:		Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:45:11 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:		<alpine.LFD.1.10.0809051039070.3117@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
Cc:		David Miller <davem-AT-davemloft.net>, akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org, netdev-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, jouni.malinen-AT-atheros.com
Archive-link:		Article, Thread

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Alex Williamson wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 16:46 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > 22) Two mac80211 bug fixes from Jouni Malinen:
> >     a) Use IWEVCUSTOM so that we don't hit the 256 byte limit that
> >        IWEVASSOCREQIE has
> 
> This one breaks wireless with 32bit userspace/64bit kernel.  Bisected
> back to changeset 087d833e5a9f67ba933cb32eaf5a2279c1a5b47c:
> 
> mac80211: Use IWEVASSOCREQIE instead of IWEVCUSTOM

Grr. I'd love to say "I told you so", and write another rant about -rc 
series patches. But I'm too lazy, so people - please mentally insert my 
standard rant here.

David/Jouni - just revert it?

		Linus

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