From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:04:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080819.140458.236030589.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20080819.131454.223684377.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:60546 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751102AbYHSVE6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:04:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:47:59 -0700 (PDT) > Same goes for all the loopback changes. They look like cleanups or feature > enables. Those fix a performance regression reported by a real user. Sure I did a cleanup of dead code in one of those commits, but if you look at the commit beforehand from Herbert, the context, you can see that it made no sense to leave that in there any longer as half of what it was standing there as "documenting" was removed by Herbert's commit.