From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jimi@sngx.net
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1000/pcnet32
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:50:55 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080529.135055.193706538.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <483EE4A4.20508@sngx.net>
From: James Cammarata <jimi@sngx.net>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 12:15:16 -0500
> I'd be more than happy to change this to a kernel config
> option, experimental and default off for those who would not want it.
We never add pieces of code which are marked experimental and
intended to be marked that way forever, that's nonsense.
What you want is your little special kernel hack in the upstream
tree, and that's now how we handle such things, sorry.
I also agree with Alan that the kernel is the wrong place to
handle this problem. Do it in userspace.
We have consistent precedence for this elsewhere in the kernel tree,
and there is good reason for that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-29 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <482DA5B6.1020606@sngx.net>
2008-05-16 20:00 ` [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface network statistics via procfs David Miller
2008-05-16 20:09 ` Rick Jones
2008-05-17 15:06 ` James Cammarata
[not found] ` <482DB46A.8020103@cosmosbay.com>
2008-05-16 20:03 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <482EF192.4070707@sngx.net>
2008-05-17 21:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-05-17 22:49 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-18 0:31 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-18 1:43 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-18 5:09 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-18 11:27 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-29 1:45 ` [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1000/pcnet32 James Cammarata
2008-05-29 2:08 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-29 5:11 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-29 12:34 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-29 14:45 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-29 17:15 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-29 20:50 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-05-29 21:18 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-30 19:12 ` Bill Fink
2008-05-30 22:14 ` Rick Jones
2008-05-31 1:09 ` Bill Fink
2008-05-31 2:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-31 4:47 ` Bill Fink
2008-05-31 12:11 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-31 23:57 ` Bill Fink
2008-06-01 1:46 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-06-01 20:46 ` Bill Fink
2008-06-01 22:29 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-06-02 3:55 ` Bill Fink
2008-06-02 5:39 ` David Miller
2008-06-02 15:41 ` Bill Fink
2008-06-02 4:50 ` Glen Turner
2008-06-02 16:10 ` Bill Fink
2008-06-03 12:28 ` James Cammarata
2008-06-03 12:35 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-06-03 14:46 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-04 3:05 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-29 14:48 ` Chris Friesen
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