netdev - Re: [PATCH] fix race in AF

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Date:	Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:19:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	miklos@...redi.hu
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix race in AF_UNIX

From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:11:56 +0200

> > > I just want to win the "who's laziest?" league.  It would take me
> > > about 5 minutes to get the netdev tree and test compile the change.
> > > Of which 5 seconds would be actually updating the patch.  I was
> > > thought it was OK to pass that 5 seconds worth of hard work to you in
> > > order to save the rest ;)
> > 
> > That tradeoff is fine, if, in return you'll do the rest of the
> > networking subsystem maintainership work I need to to. :-)
> 
> Well, I _did_ save you quite a bit of time by tracking down these
> bugs.  That 5 sec of dedication in exchange would have really made me
> feel good ;(

The only reason I can process as many patches as I can every day is
that I depend upon the end-nodes (that's you) doing most of the
time intensive work so that I can concentrate on reviewing patches
for correctness and proper implementation.

In any event, thanks for respinning the patch, it's late here so
I'll review it tomorrow.

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