From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: reminder, 2.6.18 window... Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 11:43:05 +0200 Message-ID: <200605261143.06131.ak@suse.de> References: <20060523.182217.59656237.davem@davemloft.net> <447412CA.50303@ipom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:31199 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750703AbWEZJsB (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 May 2006 05:48:01 -0400 To: Phil Dibowitz In-Reply-To: <447412CA.50303@ipom.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 24 May 2006 10:01, Phil Dibowitz wrote: > David Miller wrote: > > Some time in the next few weeks, it is likely that the 2.6.18 > > merge window will open up shortly after a 2.6.17 release. > > > > So if you have major 2.6.18 submissions planned for the networking, > > you need to start thinking about getting it to me now. > > > > There is a 2.6.18 tree up at: > > > > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.18.git > > > > All it has right now is the I/O AT stuff at the moment, and I plan to > > put Stephen Hemminger's LLC multicast/datagram changes in there as > > well. > > David, > > I posted a patch for adding support for network device statistic > resetting via ethtool. I saw no objections to it... I think it's a bad idea because it's inherently racey (I think I objected originally too) Similar patches were rejected a couple of times over the years already. > I'd like to get this into 2.6.18. It's self-contained, so it has little > chance of breaking other things and adds a useful feature that I've seen > a lot of requests for. It's broken by design. -Andi