Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756684Ab0FAWPF (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2010 18:15:05 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:57810 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754260Ab0FAWPB (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2010 18:15:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:15:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20100601.151510.137832050.davem@davemloft.net> To: richih.mailinglist@gmail.com Cc: ben@netservers.co.uk, paulus@samba.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, patrakov@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Patch] fix packet loss and massive ping spikes with PPP multi-link From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <4C04ECA3.1080905@netservers.co.uk> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 928 Lines: 23 From: Richard Hartmann Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 13:28:59 +0200 > 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. It's not the same situation at all. It is easier to fix misconfigured products that exist because of software and configurations than it is to fix a physical piece of hardware. So you could work around it if you wanted to. I definitely don't see this as -stable material, as a result. We will push it to net-next-2.6 and it will thus hit 2.6.36 as previously mentioned. -- 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/