From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: Linux kernel updates and ip_crossover patch Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:53:12 -0800 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20031030095312.6ef82ff7.davem@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: olh@suse.de, aprasad@in.ibm.com, kaena@us.ibm.com, mfrueh@suse.de, olaf@suse.de, netdev@oss.sgi.com, mehul.patel@in.ibm.com Return-path: To: Mehulkumar J Patel In-Reply-To: Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:33:57 +0530 Mehulkumar J Patel wrote: > Basically we need IP CROSSOVER patch to be part of pseries kernel. This is not how the Linux community works. You don't say "hey, we _NEED_ this" and like magic it gets added to the Linux kernel. Rather, it gets added because someone submits it and the community sees a need for the feature. As networking maintainer what I see is that this feature is needed by and used by only a very small group of people for very specialized purposes. Therefore there is no urgency to add this to the kernel sources any time soon. You can continue whining, complaining about how much you personally _NEED_ the ip_crossover patch, but that isn't going to help you arrive at your goal. Rather you should spend time explaining to the community what value it gives to them and why it would be useful to anything other than very specialized cases and uses.