From owner-freebsd-net Fri Dec 7 11:21:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6559E37B405; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:21:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fB7JQx301437; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:26:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200112071926.fB7JQx301437@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: arch@freebsd.org, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request to back out Luigis polled-net patch in -stable. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Dec 2001 17:14:00 +0100." <22765.1007741640@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 11:26:59 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > To: core@freebsd.org Core isn't really the appropriate forum for asking for a back-out; arch and net are where this should have been discussed and reviewed in the first place. > Subject: Request to back out Luigis polled-net patch in -stable. I'm entirely in agreement with this; the decision to commit this code was extremely ill-advised, and the best thing we can do now for everyone's sake is to pull it as quickly as possible. > I would also like to point to the parallel piece of code: Jun-Itohs > ALTQ for which he reliably has maintained a patch relative to the > 4.X branch and which despite various peoples requests have not > haphazardly been committed into -stable. And in that context one > should not forget that ALTQ has a lot longer and better trackrecord > of high quality than Luigis poll-code, or any of Luigis code for > that matter. Yes; this is an excellent example of how it can be done better. Regards, Mike -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message