netdev - Re: [Patch] fix packet loss and massive ping spikes with PPP multi-link

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Message-Id: <20100601.151510.137832050.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:15:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	richih.mailinglist@...il.com
Cc:	ben@...servers.co.uk, paulus@...ba.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ppp@...r.kernel.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	patrakov@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] fix packet loss and massive ping spikes with PPP
 multi-link

From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 13:28:59 +0200

> 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.

It's not the same situation at all.

It is easier to fix misconfigured products that exist because of
software and configurations than it is to fix a physical piece of
hardware.

So you could work around it if you wanted to.

I definitely don't see this as -stable material, as a result.  We will
push it to net-next-2.6 and it will thus hit 2.6.36 as previously
mentioned.
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