* Your new feature should not be enabled by default! -- [torvalds@linux-foundation.org: Re: [GIT] Networking]
@ 2012-01-07 1:44 John W. Linville
2012-01-07 1:50 ` David Miller
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From: John W. Linville @ 2012-01-07 1:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-wireless
Words of wisdom...
----- Forwarded message from Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> -----
> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 17:34:39 -0800
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> 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 <davem@davemloft.net> 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
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