From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com
Cc: dledford@redhat.com, gerd.rausch@oracle.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
rds-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] RDS: Re-add pf/sol access via sysctl
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 14:31:41 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190814.143141.178107876214573923.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53a6feaf-b48e-aadf-1bd7-4c82ddc36d1e@oracle.com>
From: santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:36:19 -0700
> On 8/14/19 11:21 AM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com
>> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:01:36 -0700
>>
>>> Some of the application software was released before 2009 and ended up
>>> using these proc entries from downstream kernel. The newer lib/app
>>> using RDS don't use these. Unfortunately lot of customer still use
>>> Oracle 9, 10, 11 which were released before 2007 and run these apps
>>> on modern kernels.
>> So those apps are using proc entries that were never upstream...
>>
>> Sorry, this is completely and utterly inappropriate.
>>
> Agree. Unfortunately one of the legacy application library didn't
> get upgraded even after the ports were registered with IANA.
> Oracle 11 is still very active release and hence this patch.
>
> It is fine to drop $subject patch from this series.
The appropriate procedure is to resubmit the series with the patch
removed.
Thank you.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-14 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-13 18:20 [PATCH net-next 1/5] RDS: Re-add pf/sol access via sysctl Gerd Rausch
2019-08-13 22:07 ` santosh.shilimkar
2019-08-14 15:56 ` Doug Ledford
2019-08-14 17:41 ` Gerd Rausch
2019-08-14 18:01 ` santosh.shilimkar
2019-08-14 18:21 ` David Miller
2019-08-14 18:36 ` santosh.shilimkar
2019-08-14 21:31 ` David Miller [this message]
2019-08-14 21:45 ` Gerd Rausch
2019-08-15 1:25 ` David Miller
2019-08-15 14:40 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] net/rds: Fixes from internal Oracle repo Gerd Rausch
2019-08-15 19:04 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <cover.1565879451.git.gerd.rausch@oracle.com>
2019-08-15 14:42 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] RDS: limit the number of times we loop in rds_send_xmit Gerd Rausch
2019-08-15 16:16 ` santosh.shilimkar
2019-08-15 14:42 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] RDS: don't use GFP_ATOMIC for sk_alloc in rds_create Gerd Rausch
2019-08-15 16:17 ` santosh.shilimkar
2019-08-15 14:42 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] net/rds: Add a few missing rds_stat_names entries Gerd Rausch
2019-08-15 16:17 ` santosh.shilimkar
2019-08-15 14:43 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] rds: check for excessive looping in rds_send_xmit Gerd Rausch
2019-08-15 16:18 ` santosh.shilimkar
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