From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] netpoll: rework skb transmit queue Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:00:16 -0400 Message-ID: <20061021050016.GD21948@redhat.com> References: <20061020081857.743b5eb7@localhost.localdomain> <20061020.122427.55507415.davem@davemloft.net> <20061020122527.56292b56@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> <20061020.125226.59656580.davem@davemloft.net> <20061020132532.65a3e655@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:29375 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751724AbWJUFA3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:00:29 -0400 To: Stephen Hemminger Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061020132532.65a3e655@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 01:25:32PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:52:26 -0700 (PDT) > David Miller wrote: > > > From: Stephen Hemminger > > Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:25:27 -0700 > > > > > Sorry, but why should we treat out-of-tree vendor code any > > > differently than out-of-tree other code. > > > > I think what netdump was trying to do, provide a way to > > requeue instead of fully drop the SKB, is quite reasonable. > > Don't you think? > > > Netdump doesn't even exist in the current Fedora source rpm. > I think Dave dropped it. Indeed. Practically no-one cared about it, so it bit-rotted really fast after we shipped RHEL4. That, along with the focus shifting to making kdump work seemed to kill it off over the last 12 months. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk