Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755418Ab0FAL3F (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2010 07:29:05 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f216.google.com ([209.85.219.216]:53167 "EHLO mail-ew0-f216.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752915Ab0FAL3B convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2010 07:29:01 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=F+zpAx+8VrB2qMoVglH61TkEyaTkDLBREtDrHAsicVRqM6CmZMCMHVhpIIQ2gyqBCF TaUDggrjl85A9kZXlkfB0h+3ZivK/Qespc+LV03QaAoIReYbqll1vOwozBRBw43FFcU2 bJEoEE52pg78TAmcXQ311/m+GJXc3bZcs40Co= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4C04ECA3.1080905@netservers.co.uk> References: <2d460de71003260850x7f90d04cy79ac853464108182@mail.gmail.com> <20100326160226.0159ac3b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4BACE827.4070006@gmail.com> <20100326170428.6c1ad66c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4BB31E00.8060204@netservers.co.uk> <20100529021624.GA2538@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> <4C04ECA3.1080905@netservers.co.uk> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 13:28:59 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Patch] fix packet loss and massive ping spikes with PPP multi-link From: Richard Hartmann To: Ben McKeegan Cc: Paul Mackerras , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , "Alexander E. Patrakov" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 664 Lines: 16 On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 13:18, Ben McKeegan wrote: > This isn't really a bug fix.  Its a behavioural change to work around poor > quality/mismatched underlying PPP channels. Maybe not a bug in the Linux kernel itself, but certainly in the real world that exists around Linux. Similar to how a change to a device driver that is needed to work around broken hardware is a bug fix, imo. RIchard -- 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/