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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:06:42 +0100
From: Dean Jenkins <Dean_Jenkins@mentor.com>
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To: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: SLIP: Is there a maintainer for drivers/net/slip/slip.c ?
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Hi Peter,

On 24/06/13 14:53, Peter Hurley wrote:
> On 06/24/2013 04:27 AM, Dean Jenkins wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Using the Linux v3.9 tag, I note that
>>
>> ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/net/slip/slip.c
>> netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS)
>> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
>>
>> There seems to be no maintainer for drivers/net/slip/slip.c, is that 
>> true ?
>>
>> I am asking because sl_encaps() and slip_write_wakeup() do not handle 
>> error codes from tty->ops->write() and a recursive stack overflow 
>> crash can occur if the tty->ops->write() fails to write all the 
>> characters. I have some patches to fix this but would like some 
>> feedback on an appropriate solution.
>
> SLIP changes would likely go through David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>.
> TTY changes would go through Greg Kroah-Hartman 
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
I have already sent an E-mail to David Miller and the netdev mailing 
list but so far got not reply from David.

So I guess I have sent my patches to the correct place ;)

Thanks,

Regards,
Dean Jenkins
Mentor Graphics
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