Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:00:16 -0400 | | From | Dave Jones <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] netpoll: rework skb transmit queue |
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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 <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > > > From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> > > 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
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