From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:45:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:44:44 -0500 Received: from ns.snowman.net ([63.80.4.34]:21000 "EHLO ns.snowman.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:44:32 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:43:56 -0500 From: Stephen Frost To: Jes Sorensen Cc: "David S. Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 Message-ID: <20010108174355.P26953@ns> Mail-Followup-To: Jes Sorensen , "David S. Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <200101080124.RAA08134@pizda.ninka.net> <200101082148.NAA21738@pizda.ninka.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="33yLIq9/uqwyGAKN" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jes@linuxcare.com on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:32:48PM +0100 X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Info: http://www.snowman.net X-Operating-System: Linux/2.2.16 (i686) X-Uptime: 5:39pm up 144 days, 21:26, 7 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --33yLIq9/uqwyGAKN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Jes Sorensen (jes@linuxcare.com) wrote: > >>>>> "David" =3D=3D David S Miller writes: >=20 > I don't question Alexey's skills and I have no intentions of working > against him. All I am asking is that someone lets me know if they make > major changes to my code so I can keep track of whats happening. It is > really hard to maintain code if you work on major changes while > someone else branches off in a different direction without you > knowing. It's simply a waste of everybody's time. Perhaps you missed it, but I believe Dave's intent is for this to only be a proof-of-concept idea at this time. These changes are not=20 currently up for inclusion into the mainstream kernel. I can not think that Dave would ever just step around a maintainer and submit a patch to Linus for large changes. If many people test these and things work out well for them=20 then I'm sure Dave will go back to the maintainers with the code and=20 the api and work with them to get it into the mainstream kernel. =20 Soliciting ideas and suggestions on how to improve the api and the code=20 paths in the drivers to handle this new method most effectively. Stephen --33yLIq9/uqwyGAKN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6WkKrrzgMPqB3kigRAmokAJ9u4syg08ujQlPVBXuoetDVjJnS6ACeMDj6 B1oHeCXNmDhAVQQmoP+TeGc= =4/AR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --33yLIq9/uqwyGAKN-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/