netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Tracepoint for tcp retransmission

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Message-Id: <20120120.135028.1359677274445012541.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:50:28 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	satoru.moriya@....com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...driver.com, tgraf@...radead.org,
	stephen.hemminger@...tta.com, hagen@...u.net,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, seiji.aguchi@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Tracepoint for tcp retransmission

From: Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@....com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:07:02 -0500

> Sometimes network packets are dropped for some reason. In enterprise
> systems which require strict RAS functionality, we must know the
> reason why it happened and explain it to our customers even if using
> TCP.

You were given an alternative way to trace these kinds of events,
and you have yet to give us a solid reason why that cannot work
for you.

I am not applying these patches, sorry.
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