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From: David Miller <davem@...>
To: <jimi@...>
Cc: <alan@...>, <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <netdev@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1000/pcnet32
Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 4:50 pm

From: James Cammarata <jimi@sngx.net>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 12:15:16 -0500


We never add pieces of code which are marked experimental and
intended to be marked that way forever, that's nonsense.

What you want is your little special kernel hack in the upstream
tree, and that's now how we handle such things, sorry.

I also agree with Alan that the kernel is the wrong place to
handle this problem.  Do it in userspace.

We have consistent precedence for this elsewhere in the kernel tree,
and there is good reason for that.
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[PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface netw..., James Cammarata, (Fri May 16, 11:18 am)
Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., David Miller, (Fri May 16, 4:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., Rick Jones, (Fri May 16, 4:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., James Cammarata, (Sat May 17, 11:06 am)
Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., Eric Dumazet, (Fri May 16, 12:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., James Cammarata, (Sat May 17, 10:54 am)
Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., Eric Dumazet, (Sat May 17, 5:41 pm)
Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., James Cammarata, (Sat May 17, 6:49 pm)
Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., Ben Hutchings, (Sat May 17, 8:31 pm)
Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., James Cammarata, (Sun May 18, 1:09 am)
[PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1000/..., James Cammarata, (Wed May 28, 9:45 pm)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Andrew Morton, (Thu May 29, 1:11 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., James Cammarata, (Thu May 29, 8:34 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Alan Cox, (Thu May 29, 10:45 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Bill Fink, (Fri May 30, 3:12 pm)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Alan Cox, (Sat May 31, 8:11 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Bill Fink, (Sat May 31, 7:57 pm)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Glen Turner, (Mon Jun 2, 12:50 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Bill Fink, (Mon Jun 2, 12:10 pm)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., James Cammarata, (Tue Jun 3, 8:28 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Alan Cox, (Tue Jun 3, 10:46 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., James Cammarata, (Tue Jun 3, 11:05 pm)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Ben Hutchings, (Tue Jun 3, 8:35 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Ben Hutchings, (Sat May 31, 9:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Bill Fink, (Sun Jun 1, 4:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., David Miller, (Mon Jun 2, 1:39 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Bill Fink, (Mon Jun 2, 11:41 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Ben Hutchings, (Sun Jun 1, 6:29 pm)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Bill Fink, (Sun Jun 1, 11:55 pm)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Rick Jones, (Fri May 30, 6:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Bill Fink, (Fri May 30, 9:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Stephen Hemminger, (Fri May 30, 10:41 pm)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Bill Fink, (Sat May 31, 12:47 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., James Cammarata, (Thu May 29, 1:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., David Miller, (Thu May 29, 4:50 pm)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., James Cammarata, (Thu May 29, 5:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Chris Friesen, (Thu May 29, 10:48 am)
Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., James Cammarata, (Wed May 28, 10:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., Ben Hutchings, (Sun May 18, 7:27 am)
Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., Patrick McHardy, (Sat May 17, 9:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., David Miller, (Fri May 16, 4:03 pm)