netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/4] Phonet: mark the pipe controller as EXPERIMENTAL

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Message-Id: <20101008.141752.02269852.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:17:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	remi@...lab.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, remi.denis-courmont@...ia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Phonet: mark the pipe controller as EXPERIMENTAL

From: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@...lab.net>
Date: Fri,  8 Oct 2010 17:02:03 +0300

> From: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@...ia.com>
> 
> There are a bunch of issues that need to be fixed, including:
>  - GFP_KERNEL allocations from atomic context
>    (and GFP_ATOMIC in process context),
>  - abuse of the setsockopt() call convention,
>  - unprotected/unlocked static variables...
> 
> IMHO, we will need to alter the userspace ABI when we fix it. So mark
> the configuration option as EXPERIMENTAL for the time being (or should
> it be BROKEN instead?).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@...ia.com>

Applied.
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