netdev - Re: [RFC] irda: irttp: allow zero byte packets

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Date:	Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:51:01 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	w.sang@...gutronix.de
Cc:	irda-users@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	samuel@...tiz.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] irda: irttp: allow zero byte packets

From: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:19:47 +0100

> Sending zero byte packets is not neccessarily an error (AF_INET accepts it,
> too), so just apply a shortcut. This was discovered because of a non-working
> software with WINE. See
> 
>   http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19397#c86
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.irda.general/1643
> 
> for very detailed debugging information and a testcase. Kudos to Wolfgang for
> those!
> 
> Reported-by: Wolfgang Schwotzer <wolfgang.schwotzer@....net>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
> Tested-by: Mike Evans <mike.evans@...dolan.com>

This looks good to me, applied, thanks!
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