Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:03:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:02:19 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:43525 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:01:03 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:59:57 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Nathan Scott cc: Andi Kleen , , Andreas Gruenbacher Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin In-Reply-To: <20020130104004.C81308@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Nathan Scott wrote: > > Al had several (additional) issues with the original patch, but I > think we progressively worked through them - Al stopped suggesting > changes at one point anyway, and the level of abuse died away ;), > so I guess he became more satisfied with them. I think you can safely assume that if Al doesn't curse you to hell, he can be considered happy. > Not much point apportioning blame - its as much my fault - I > hadn't heard back from you at all since day 1, so figured you > were just not interested in this stuff, so I stopped sending. Basically, you should always consider email to me to be a unreliable medium, with no explicit congestion control. So think of an email like a TCP packet, with exponential backoff - except the times are different (in TCP, the initial timeout is three seconds, and the max timeout is 2 minutes. In "Linus-lossy-network" it makes sense to use different default and maximum values ;) Linus - 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/