Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:05:07 -0000 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request to back out Luigis polled-net patch in -stable. Message-ID: <200112071926.fB7JQx301437@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Dec 2001 17:14:00 %2B0100." <22765.1007741640@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> 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
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