netdev - Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] net, batman: don't crash on zero length strings in routing

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Date:	Tue, 25 Dec 2012 16:30:42 +0800
From:	Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@...oo.de>
To:	b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org
Cc:	Pau Koning <paukoning@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, siwu@....tu-chemnitz.de,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] net, batman: don't crash on zero length strings in routing_algo

On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 03:36:36 Marek Lindner wrote:
> > >> > empty, this assumption is wrong:
> > >> Why isn't this patch part of Linux 3.7? It seems to be a bugfix and it
> > >> was sent early enough?
> > > 
> > > The patch received a reply mere 2 hours after it was sent. Again,
> > > please read all mails before making noise.
> > 
> > Ok, leaving this problem unsolved is the correct way to handle it?
> > Nobody is allowed to say anything?
> 
> No, of course you are allowed "to say" something. I was simply pointing you
> to the explanation why the patch wasn't merged yet.

Let me add here: Feel free to do the required cleanup work and re-submit the 
patch. Nobody stops you from doing that as well.  :-)

Cheers,
Marek
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