Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:37:46 -0800
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)
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On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:41:46PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:51:12PM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > 
> > 	You are right, it's not critical, and I was already thinking
> > of not pushing WE-18 to you (the WPA update). I'll stop updating 2.4.X
> > with respect to wireless, the patches will be available on my web page
> > for people who needs it. 
> 
> Please dont miss bugfixes for present functionality. Gracias.

	Depend what you call "bugfix". Fortunately, with the long beta
period I do with the WE, bugs are few. There are only two "bugs" in
WE-16 I'm aware off (fixed in WE-17), but I don't think they are worth
fixing.
	The first is the handling of spyoffset which is potentially
unsafe. Unfortunately, the fix involve some API/infrastructure change,
so is not transparent. Fortunately drivers are clever enough to not
trigger this bug.
	The second is a potential leak of kernel data to user space in
private handler handling. Few drivers use that feature, there is no
risk of crash or direct attack, so I would not worry about it.

> Faster, cleaner, way more elegant, handles intense loads more gracefully, 
> handles highmem decently, LSM/SELinux, etc, etc...
> 
> IMO everyone should upgrade whenever appropriate. 

	If people want to use 2.4.X, I won't prevent them...
	Have fun...

	Jean
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