Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:55:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:55:23 -0400 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:22285 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:55:07 -0400 Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 To: andrea@suse.de (Andrea Arcangeli) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:00:36 +0100 (BST) Cc: mingo@elte.hu (Ingo Molnar), hadi@cyberus.ca (jamal), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru (Alexey Kuznetsov), Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se (Robert Olsson), bcrl@redhat.com (Benjamin LaHaise), netdev@oss.sgi.com, torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) In-Reply-To: <20011008023118.L726@athlon.random> from "Andrea Arcangeli" at Oct 08, 2001 02:31:18 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Of course we agree that such a "polling router/firewall" behaviour must > not be the default but it must be enabled on demand by the admin via > sysctl or whatever else userspace API. And I don't see any problem with > that. No I don't agree. "Stop random end users crashing my machine at will" is not a magic sysctl option - its a default. Alan - 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/