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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Tracepoint for tcp retransmission
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From: Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.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.