From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 3 00:05:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E746A16A41F; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 00:05:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ps@mu.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B2143D48; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 00:05:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ps@mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B89C65CBF4; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 17:04:39 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: ps@mu.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.119]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E09A581E0B; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:22:02 -0600 (CST) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D945561E; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:21:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 538) id 0133137B416; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:21:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D127C2E8003; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:21:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by hub.freebsd.org (bulk_mailer v1.12); Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:21:56 -0800 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@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 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 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Status: RO Lines: 36 Cc: arch@freebsd.org, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request to back out Luigis polled-net patch in -stable. X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:05:07 -0000 X-Original-Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 11:26:59 -0800 X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:05:07 -0000 > 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-arch" in the body of the message