From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:51459 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751612Ab2AGBp6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:45:58 -0500 Received: from uucp by smtp.tuxdriver.com with local-rmail (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RjLM3-0000bD-6Y for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:45:55 -0500 Received: from linville-8530p.local (linville-8530p.local [127.0.0.1]) by linville-8530p.local (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q071ioF4025826 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:44:50 -0500 Received: (from linville@localhost) by linville-8530p.local (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q071inWp025824 for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:44:49 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:44:49 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Your new feature should not be enabled by default! -- [torvalds@linux-foundation.org: Re: [GIT] Networking] Message-ID: <20120107014449.GF12127@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20120107_024601_659034_42839986) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Words of wisdom... ----- Forwarded message from Linus Torvalds ----- > Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 17:34:39 -0800 > From: Linus Torvalds > To: David Miller > Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:28 PM, David Miller wrote: > > > > Netlink socket dumping is now supported for UDP and AF_UNIX sockets > > thanks to Pavel Emelyanov. > > .. and this is such a magically important feature that it has to be > enabled by default? > > It's something that has never been supported before, how did it > suddenly become 'default y' after twenty years of not even being an > issue? > > It's a disease, I tell you, to think that new features are important. > Stop it. Tell people you take patches from to stop it. If we haven't > needed them before, they sure as hell aren't suddenly "Say Yes if you > don't know" material. > > Please fix this, but more importantly, please try to fix *people*. So > I don't have to always react to the stupid new "default y" options. > > Linus > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.