From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/24] net, diet: Make TCP metrics optional Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 13:44:17 -0700 Message-ID: <20140506204417.GQ19657@tassilo.jf.intel.com> References: <20140506164546.GB20536@cloud> <20140506.131752.740569380523989782.davem@davemloft.net> <20140506172106.GB20776@cloud> <20140506.132501.331724703594119414.davem@davemloft.net> <20140506201145.GC21332@cloud> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Miller , eric.dumazet@gmail.com, andi@firstfloor.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com To: josh@joshtriplett.org Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140506201145.GC21332@cloud> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org > And if you're asking for someone to help pay attention to bug reports so > you don't have to, that's reasonable as well; just like you probably > have a stock response for "that's a crazy distro kernel, ask them about > it and not me", you could have a stock response for "that kernel has the > crazy embedded option turned on, ask the embedded people about it and > not me". It doesn't just have to be *your* problem alone. We could add a tainted flag for these configurations and a message at bootup to make it obvious in bug reports. Would that help? -Andi