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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:34:07 +0300 From: "Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@...adcom.com> To: "David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> cc: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "Yitchak Gertner" <yitchak.gertner@...adcom.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] bnx2x: Multi Queue On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 15:30 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: "Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@...adcom.com> > Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:25:04 +0300 > Applied, but this is a completely inappropriate change to be sending > at this time. If multiqueue is disabled, then users absolutely cannot > hit any real bug due to these incorrect pieces of code. Therefore it > is not fixing something that we should be trying to deal with outside > of the merge window. Point taken. The reason we applied this patch was due to users enabling this feature and reporting errors - but on retrospect I shouldn't have sent it to this tree > > Can I make a suggestion? Instead of bombing me with 10 patches at a time, > is it possible to send a patch every day or so instead, as you write them? > > That makes things enormously easier for me, because when I have to instead > bunch up several at a time I have to push this to Linus and all he sees > is lots of changes outside of the merge window all at once and I have to > explain to him why all of these changes are "really needed". > > I know this probably doesn't mesh well with how you guys do development > and testing, but I hope you can see how it puts me into a corner as we > get deeper and deeper into the RC series. :( I hear you - if (when...) we will root cause the next serious-enough-to-be-submitted bug I will send it (and only it) ASAP > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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