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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 13:28:59 +0200
From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@...il.com>
To: Ben McKeegan <ben@...servers.co.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-ppp@...r.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] fix packet loss and massive ping spikes with PPP
multi-link
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 13:18, Ben McKeegan <ben@...servers.co.uk> wrote:
> This isn't really a bug fix. Its a behavioural change to work around poor
> quality/mismatched underlying PPP channels.
Maybe not a bug in the Linux kernel itself, but certainly in the real world
that exists around Linux. Similar to how a change to a device driver that
is needed to work around broken hardware is a bug fix, imo.
RIchard
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