From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: TOE brain dump Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 22:25:54 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030803222554.7027a160.davem@redhat.com> References: <20030802140444.E5798@almesberger.net> <3F2BF5C7.90400@us.ibm.com> <3F2C0C44.6020002@pobox.com> <20030802184901.G5798@almesberger.net> <3F2CAE61.7070401@pobox.com> <3F2DBB2B.9050803@aarnet.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Glen Turner In-Reply-To: <3F2DBB2B.9050803@aarnet.edu.au> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org [ This discussion belongs on netdev, not linux-kernel. ] On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:17:23 +0930 Glen Turner wrote: > That's Matt Mathis's phrase. The Web100 project > has a set of patches to the kernel > which go a long way to reducing the wizard gap. It would be > nice to see those patches eventually appear in the Linux > mainstream. The web100 patches aren't in the kernel because 1) they've never even been submitted and 2) they need a large cleanup. I sort of get the impression that the web100 folks actually like that their changes are not in the main sources, it keeps their work "special".