From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:15:14 +0400 Message-ID: <20080819211514.GA28510@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20080819.041706.261399060.davem@davemloft.net> <20080819.131454.223684377.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Miller , akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Return-path: Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.80.65]:49900 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751928AbYHSVP4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:15:56 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:47:59PM -0700, Linus Torvalds (torvalds@linux-foundation.org) wrote: > I really don't see the e1000 and netxen updates as being critical either. > Sure, they look like driver improvement, but "improvement" is not what the > -rc3+ series is about. Netxen driver update contains bug fixes (leak and races) and hardware workaround. Well, it has driver version bump either, I agress, that one was an error. E1000 contains number of regression fixes and performance improvement via module parameter change. > Same goes for all the loopback changes. They look like cleanups or feature > enables. It fixes performance regression. -- Evgeniy Polyakov