Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932711AbWJBHAV (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 03:00:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932710AbWJBHAV (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 03:00:21 -0400 Received: from sj-iport-6.cisco.com ([171.71.176.117]:6590 "EHLO sj-iport-6.cisco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932701AbWJBHAU (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 03:00:20 -0400 To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jesse Huang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] remove TxStartThresh and RxEarlyThresh X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information References: <1159813431.2576.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061001235312.aa2c6d17.akpm@osdl.org> From: Roland Dreier Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:00:18 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20061001235312.aa2c6d17.akpm@osdl.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Sun, 1 Oct 2006 23:53:12 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.18 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Oct 2006 07:00:19.0480 (UTC) FILETIME=[6C140180:01C6E5F0] Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-2.cisco.com; header.From=rdreier@cisco.com; dkim=pass ( sig from cisco.com verified; ); Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 840 Lines: 19 > > For pattern issue need to remove TxStartThresh and RxEarlyThresh. > Please describe this issue more completely. > > What are the implications of simply removing this feature? Presumably that > code was there for a reason.. Actually I think this patch needs to be handled delicately -- because based on earlier emails from Jesse (http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg22254.html), I am pretty sure that "pattern" is a typo for "patent". So I guess the question is what exactly the patent covers and what the implications of having the current kernel code are. - R. - 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/