Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272358AbTHEB5S (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 21:57:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272359AbTHEB5S (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 21:57:18 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:49343 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272358AbTHEB5P (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 21:57:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 18:54:01 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: David Lang Cc: Werner Almesberger , "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: TOE brain dump Message-ID: <20030805015401.GA15811@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , David Lang , Werner Almesberger , Ihar 'Philips' Filipau , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20030804223800.P5798@almesberger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.5, required 7, AWL, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 584 Lines: 12 I'd suggest that all of you look at the fact that all of these offload card companies have ended up dieing. I don't know of a single one that made it to profitability. Doesn't that tell you something? What has changed that makes this a good idea? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/