Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:53:10 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <20080111.175310.212714342.davem@davemloft.net>
To: cfriesen@nortel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: questions on NAPI processing latency and dropped network
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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:59:26 -0600

> 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.

And by asking here for people to dig into it for you, you are asking
people for free help providing that support.

That's why there is such negative backlash to asking questions about
such ancient kernel here, you're asking us to do your work, for free.
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