From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
To: Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, rick.jones2@hp.com, hadi@cyberus.ca,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, jeff@garzik.org
Subject: Re: reminder, 2.6.18 window...
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 03:55:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060525035506.2f229b64.billfink@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44753A3B.5010204@ipom.com>
On Wed, 24 May 2006, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
> Right. I think the point here is that it does _NOT_ inherently break
> things. If you don't like the behavior, don't run "ethtool -z eth0",
> it's that simple.
>
> A co-worker suggested today, that maybe it'd appease people if the final
> ethtool patch made it a capitol option that you can only run by itself.
> I.e. if you can't call it with anything else, it's more difficult to
> call my accident. I'd be willing to this.
I think that's a good idea. Since it is changing (zeroing) the stats,
it probably should be a capitol option.
-Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-25 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-24 1:22 reminder, 2.6.18 window David Miller
2006-05-24 8:01 ` Phil Dibowitz
2006-05-24 18:21 ` jamal
2006-05-24 18:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-24 18:34 ` Rick Jones
2006-05-24 18:56 ` Phil Dibowitz
2006-05-24 19:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-24 19:14 ` Phil Dibowitz
2006-05-24 20:01 ` Brent Cook
2006-05-24 20:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-25 7:23 ` Bill Fink
2006-05-25 13:05 ` Brent Cook
2006-05-25 16:12 ` Bill Fink
2006-05-25 17:59 ` Phil Dibowitz
2006-05-25 18:41 ` Brent Cook
2006-05-25 19:22 ` Phil Dibowitz
2006-05-25 20:29 ` David Miller
2006-05-25 21:04 ` Phil Dibowitz
2006-05-25 21:07 ` David Miller
2006-05-26 9:52 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-25 13:34 ` Dave Dillow
2006-05-26 9:46 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-24 20:10 ` jamal
2006-05-24 20:25 ` Rick Jones
2006-05-25 15:27 ` jamal
2006-05-25 16:43 ` Rick Jones
2006-05-26 22:06 ` Rick Jones
2006-05-24 20:44 ` Brian Haley
2006-05-24 21:01 ` Rick Jones
2006-05-26 6:48 ` Phil Dibowitz
2006-05-24 20:48 ` Phil Dibowitz
2006-05-24 21:04 ` Rick Jones
2006-05-24 21:10 ` Ben Greear
2006-05-25 5:01 ` Phil Dibowitz
2006-05-25 7:18 ` Ben Greear
2006-05-25 7:55 ` Bill Fink [this message]
2006-05-25 12:17 ` Francois Romieu
2006-05-25 9:53 ` Pekka Savola
2006-05-24 20:53 ` Andy
2006-05-26 9:43 ` Andi Kleen
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