Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 May 2008 16:18:03 -0500 | From | James Cammarata <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1000/pcnet32 |
| |
>> 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.
| |