Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763189AbYAKWxl (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:53:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761955AbYAKWxO (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:53:14 -0500 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:1059 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762905AbYAKWxL (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:53:11 -0500 From: Herbert Xu To: cfriesen@nortel.com (Chris Friesen) Subject: Re: questions on NAPI processing latency and dropped network packets Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Organization: Core In-Reply-To: <4787844E.4020107@nortel.com> X-Newsgroups: apana.lists.os.linux.kernel,apana.lists.os.linux.netdev User-Agent: tin/1.7.4-20040225 ("Benbecula") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.17-rc4 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:29:14 +1100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 837 Lines: 20 Chris Friesen wrote: > > I'd love to work on newer kernels, but we have a commitment to our > customers to support multiple releases for a significant amount of time. Since you've made the commitment, you should stick to it and resolve the issues without asking us to contribute. After all we haven't made that commitment to you or your customers. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- 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/