From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Cammarata Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1000/pcnet32 Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 16:18:03 -0500 Message-ID: <483F1D8B.7010904@sngx.net> References: <483EA2D1.8050603@sngx.net> <20080529154525.3916c7b5@core> <483EE4A4.20508@sngx.net> <20080529.135055.193706538.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from dsl093-193-175.stl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.193.175]:58240 "EHLO hades.sngx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752889AbYE2VSi (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 17:18:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080529.135055.193706538.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >> 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. Completely not my intention, I did not ever intend to have something marked experimental forever, and I'm not sure where you're drawing that inference from. > What you want is your little special kernel hack in the upstream > tree, and that's now how we handle such things, sorry. No, I saw what I thought was a lack of a feature that is commonplace on many other platforms, and thought I'd give it a shot to see if I could add it myself. The NAKs are apparently overwhelming on this issue, so I'll stop beating a dead horse and move on. Thanks for the input.