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From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:32:58 +0300 (EEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ae6q7b$k3i$2@main.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D06E9A0.5060801@candelatech.com>

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Ben Greear wrote:
> If they are useful to some people, and have zero performance affect on others
> (due to being a configurable kernel feature), then what is your
> complaint?

3) Added features and complexity makes it more difficult to maintain the 
kernel (you could say this is a variant of 1)

4) Patches that have only a little debugging/etc. value are probably 
useful, but mainly for a specific set of people, and this would seem to be 
best handled by external patches.
 
> 1)  General increase in #ifdef'd code.  This actually seems like
>     a pretty good argument, but I haven't seen anyone mention it
>     specifically.

Always implied from maintenance point-of-view.
 
-- 
Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-12  6:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-06 19:37 RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets Chris Friesen
2002-06-07  3:21 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-07 15:34   ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-07 15:34   ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-07 22:15   ` Ben Greear
2002-06-08 21:05     ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-08 23:04       ` David S. Miller
2002-06-08 23:04       ` David S. Miller
2002-06-09  0:13         ` Ben Greear
2002-06-09  0:13         ` Ben Greear
2002-06-09  0:51           ` David S. Miller
2002-06-09 18:23             ` Ben Greear
2002-06-10  4:34               ` David S. Miller
2002-06-10  5:55                 ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-10  5:55                 ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-10  6:08                 ` Ben Greear
2002-06-10  6:08                 ` Ben Greear
2002-06-10 12:03                 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-10 12:03                   ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-10 12:18                   ` David S. Miller
2002-06-10 12:18                     ` David S. Miller
2002-06-10 12:24                     ` jamal
2002-06-10 13:57                       ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-10 14:45                         ` jamal
2002-06-10 14:56                           ` jamal
2002-06-10 19:28                           ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-10 19:28                           ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-10 19:28                           ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-10 19:28                           ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-10 19:28                           ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-10 18:44                     ` David Ford
2002-06-10 18:50                       ` Thunder from the hill
2002-06-10 19:02                         ` David Ford
2002-06-11 22:41                 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-06-11 22:41                 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-06-12  3:41                   ` David S. Miller
2002-06-12  3:41                     ` David S. Miller
2002-06-12  3:57                     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2002-06-12  5:20                       ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-12  6:08                         ` Pekka Savola
2002-06-12  6:26                           ` Ben Greear
2002-06-12  6:26                           ` Ben Greear
2002-06-12  6:32                             ` Pekka Savola [this message]
2002-06-12  6:32                             ` Pekka Savola
2002-06-12  6:49                               ` Ben Greear
2002-06-12  6:49                               ` Ben Greear
2002-06-12 12:11                             ` Horst von Brand
2002-06-12 12:28                               ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-12 12:33                                 ` jamal
2002-06-12 12:44                                   ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-12 12:44                                   ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-12 12:44                                   ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-12 12:44                                   ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-12 13:00                                     ` jamal
2002-06-12 14:53                                       ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-12 15:57                                         ` jamal
2002-06-12 15:57                                         ` jamal
2002-06-12 17:00                                         ` Horst von Brand
2002-06-12 17:00                                         ` Horst von Brand
2002-06-12 14:53                                       ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-12 14:53                                       ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-14  0:24                                       ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-14 15:51                                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2002-06-14 15:51                                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2002-06-14 18:09                                           ` Ben Greear
2002-06-14 18:09                                           ` Ben Greear
2002-06-12 13:00                                     ` jamal
2002-06-12 14:52                                 ` john slee
2002-06-12 14:55                                   ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-13  2:52                                   ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-13 19:53                                     ` Horst von Brand
2002-06-13  7:21                                 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-13  8:44                                   ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-13 10:10                                     ` David Schwartz
2002-06-13 10:10                                     ` David Schwartz
2002-06-13  8:44                                   ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-13  7:21                                 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-23  2:03                                 ` Alan Cox
2002-06-23  2:05                                   ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-23  2:03                                 ` Alan Cox
2002-06-12 12:28                               ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-12 12:11                             ` Horst von Brand
2002-06-12  6:08                         ` Pekka Savola
2002-06-12  9:18                         ` Sean Hunter
2002-06-12  9:18                         ` Sean Hunter
2002-06-12  5:20                       ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-10  4:34               ` David S. Miller
2002-06-09  0:51           ` David S. Miller
2002-06-09 14:47       ` Pekka Pietikäinen
2002-06-07 22:15   ` Ben Greear
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-12 20:30 Yan-Fa Li
2002-06-12 20:30 Yan-Fa Li

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