linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH resend] rewrite AF_UNIX garbage collector, fixes race

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:41:30 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, miklos@...redi.hu, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, viro@....linux.org.uk,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] rewrite AF_UNIX garbage collector, fixes race

> > But myself, nor any other developers, are going to review your work
> > any faster if you do things like try to slip things in behind the
> > maintainer's back as you attempted to do yesterday by asking Andrew to
> > put your AF_UNIX garbage collector rewrite directly into his -mm tree.
> 
> mmm...  I didn't see it as a slip-behind-the-back thing.  More a "park it
> in -mm for a bit of concurrent testing and so it doesn't get lost and so I
> don't have to worry about it any more" thing.  Plenty of that goes on.

Exactly.  I have CC-ed everyone involved, and clearly stated that I do
want it reviewed.  There wasn't any evil intention.

I _am_ slightly pissed off by still not having this bug fixed after
two months, and after spending considerable effort at hunting it down
and finding a solution for it (actually three different solutions by
now).

This may seem low priority and irrelevant, but it _is_ a bug, and it's
affecting a real world application.  So please take that into
consideration.

Thanks,
Miklos
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