From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760317AbYE2VTS (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 17:19:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759718AbYE2VSj (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 17:18:39 -0400 Received: from dsl093-193-175.stl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.193.175]:58240 "EHLO hades.sngx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752889AbYE2VSi (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 17:18:38 -0400 Message-ID: <483F1D8B.7010904@sngx.net> Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 16:18:03 -0500 From: James Cammarata User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1000/pcnet32 References: <483EA2D1.8050603@sngx.net> <20080529154525.3916c7b5@core> <483EE4A4.20508@sngx.net> <20080529.135055.193706538.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20080529.135055.193706538.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> I'd be more than happy to change this to a kernel config >> option, experimental and default off for those who would not want it. > > We never add pieces of code which are marked experimental and > intended to be marked that way forever, that's nonsense. Completely not my intention, I did not ever intend to have something marked experimental forever, and I'm not sure where you're drawing that inference from. > What you want is your little special kernel hack in the upstream > tree, and that's now how we handle such things, sorry. No, I saw what I thought was a lack of a feature that is commonplace on many other platforms, and thought I'd give it a shot to see if I could add it myself. The NAKs are apparently overwhelming on this issue, so I'll stop beating a dead horse and move on. Thanks for the input.