linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.2 44/94] wext: Fix 32 bit iwpriv compatibility issue with 64 bit Kernel

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Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2016 23:05:00 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Prasun Maiti <prasunmaiti87@...il.com>,
	Ujjal Roy <royujjal@...il.com>,
	Dibyajyoti Ghosh <dibyajyotig@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.2 44/94] wext: Fix 32 bit iwpriv compatibility issue
 with 64 bit Kernel

On Mon, 2016-08-15 at 07:51 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-08-13 at 17:42 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 
> > 3.2.82-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me
> > know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > > > From: Prasun Maiti <prasunmaiti87@...il.com>
> > 
> > commit 3d5fdff46c4b2b9534fa2f9fc78e90a48e0ff724 upstream.
> > 
> 
> Did you just include this by accident? You had pointed out yourself
> that this was broken if anything but iwpoint was transferred, and since
> the Marvell people shouldn't be using wext anyway I reverted it
> already.

Yes, this was an accident and I'll drop it.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

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