Re: [2.4 patch] Port of adutux driver from 2.6 kernel to 2.4.

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Tue Oct 16 2007 - 14:28:20 EST


On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:56:03AM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:41:38 +0200, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > OK, I have no objection, but please apply the fixes the le16 problem as
> > suggested by Pete and Greg first. Also, you will probably receive more
> > comments, and/or criticisms from further reviews. This is normal and
> > expected. You just have to fix your code so that it can be merged.
>
> I do not object to the driver (with byte order fixed), although it seems
> written oddly... E.g. lots of trivial comments, the open count locked
> by wrong lock. But I do not want to hold the 2.4 version hostage to
> errors of the mainline. We should've caught them when we merged adutux
> into Greg's tree. I have to admit I'm skipping reviewing a lot of 2.6.

I really appreciate your position, Pete. It's fair and motivating for
newcomers. I hope Vitalyi will be able to forward-port some fixes and
cleanups to 2.6 in the future.

Thanks,
Willy

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