Re: [PATCH 2/3] netpoll: rework skb transmit queue

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 01:25:32PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
 > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:52:26 -0700 (PDT)
 > David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > 
 > > From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
 > > Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:25:27 -0700
 > > 
 > > > Sorry, but why should we treat out-of-tree vendor code any
 > > > differently than out-of-tree other code.
 > > 
 > > I think what netdump was trying to do, provide a way to
 > > requeue instead of fully drop the SKB, is quite reasonable.
 > > Don't you think?
 > 
 > 
 > Netdump doesn't even exist in the current Fedora source rpm.
 > I think Dave dropped it.

Indeed. Practically no-one cared about it, so it bit-rotted
really fast after we shipped RHEL4.  That, along with the focus
shifting to making kdump work seemed to kill it off over the last
12 months.

	Dave

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