From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 19:48:17 -0700 Message-ID: <20130708194817.34503460.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20130707.132133.1335860703202153192.davem@davemloft.net> <20130707.201449.1176672898198722699.davem@davemloft.net> <51DA5E65.5060006@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Eliezer Tamir Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:54993 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751564Ab3GICrw (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:47:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <51DA5E65.5060006@linux.intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 09:38:29 +0300 Eliezer Tamir wrote: > On 08/07/2013 06:14, David Miller wrote: > > From: Linus Torvalds > > Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 15:33:31 -0700 > > > >> End result: I think the code is salvageable and people who want this > >> kind of busy-looping can have it. But I really don't want to merge it > >> as-is. I think it was badly done, I think it was badly documented, and > >> I think somebody over-sold the feature by emphasizing the upsides and > >> not the problems. > > > > Fair enough, Eliezer, please address all of Linus's feedback. > > > > It's holding the entire net-next merge up. > > > > OK The feature should also be documented in the Linux manpages, please. A way to do that is to Cc linux-man@vger.kernel.org and Michael Kerrisk , and to work with Michael on developing that documentation.