netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net-next-2.6: SYN retransmits: Rename threshold variable

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Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:23:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	damian@....rwth-aachen.de
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net-next-2.6: SYN retransmits: Rename threshold
 variable

Damian please don't do things like this.

When we make a change in net-2.6, that change is going to propagate into
net-next-2.6 the next time I do a merge.

And in this case here, the addition of the "syn_set" boolean argument to
retransmits_timed_out() will happen at that point.

So if anything, you should build on top of the bug fix we put into
net-2.6 instead of duplicating the change.

Adding the same change in two different ways to net-2.6 and net-next-2.6
makes the merge a pain in the neck for me and just makes things look
real confusing.

I'm not applying these two patches, please ask me to merge net-2.6 into
net-next-2.6 and this way you can code them relative to that.

Thanks!
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