Patrick McHardy's blog

The weather has been great the past days, so I set up my summer workplace :)

Working outside is really pleasant after a month of almost constantly grey sky. Below the balcony there's a small stream, and hundreds of birds sit in the trees and sing, which makes an amazing scenery.

I sent out a first batch of HIFN fixes today to avoid causing too much conflicts in the series in case something turns up during review. Caught a good time during which both Evgeniy and Herbert were responsive and it only took about an hour to get all patches reviewed, fix a minor bug and get them merged. The remaining ones are hopefully in shape by tommorrow, the descriptor accounting still needs a bit more work. Herbert also merged some patches from Loc Ho today for async hashing support, which is cool because I already started adding hashing support to the HIFN driver until I noticed the CrytoAPI doesn't support it asynchronously yet :)

Also sent out a few netfilter patches and fixed a slightly embarrasing bug in the macvlan driver. It would crash the kernel on module unload because cleanup was performed incorrectly, causing the kernel to jump to a NULL function pointer when receiving the next packet on the underlying device. I wonder why I've never noticed this.