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Message-ID: <478B86BA.1050706@nortel.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:58:50 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> CC: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: questions on NAPI processing latency and dropped network packets David Miller wrote: > From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com> > Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:59:26 -0600 >>I'd love to work on newer kernels, but we have a commitment to our >>customers to support multiple releases for a significant amount of time. > And by asking here for people to dig into it for you, you are asking > people for free help providing that support. I'm not asking people to spend significant amounts of time...more like if anyone has any ideas "off the top of their heads". > That's why there is such negative backlash to asking questions about > such ancient kernel here, you're asking us to do your work, for free. I hadn't realized that you felt this strongly about asking questions regarding old kernels. How close to bleeding edge do we need to be for it to be considered acceptable to ask questions on netdev? Given that the embedded space tends to be perpetually stuck on older kernels (our "current" release is based on 2.6.14) do you have any suggestion on how we can obtain information that would be available on netdev if we were using newer kernels? Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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