From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: khc@pm•waw.pl, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is gre0 auto-created, and can we fix it?
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:00:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F1C78F1.2070409@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120122.141447.1622071157220040891.davem@davemloft.net>
On 01/22/2012 11:14 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech•com>
> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:48:53 -0800
>
>> Just to make sure I understand you: You dislike any possible method
>> of changing the behaviour, not just the ones I listed?
>
> That's correct.
>
> And please don't create dependencies on such a change in behavior in
> distributions, otherwise you obliterate the entire reason why I don't
> want the behavior changed.
No worries, I don't have a real distribution and I can't imagine any
real distribution picking up my changes against your wishes. Just to
be safe, I'll default any changes to the current behaviour.
> There is no reason to change this, it's been like this for more than
> 10 years and no alien planet has exploded as a result even after all
> of this time.
Well, it breaks my (proprietary, and already optimized for my own kernel
hacks) user-space program, and though I could add hacks to
fix it eventually, I think it will be much easier to hack the kernel.
> Just leave it be, I beg you.
I think you may be over-estimating my influence :)
I have much more horrible patches I've been carrying for years and years
and as you say, the alien planets are all doing ok.
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech•com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-22 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-03 19:49 Why is gre0 auto-created, and can we fix it? Ben Greear
2012-01-03 19:59 ` David Miller
2012-01-03 20:03 ` Ben Greear
2012-01-03 20:11 ` David Miller
2012-01-21 17:39 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2012-01-21 17:48 ` Ben Greear
2012-01-21 18:40 ` David Miller
2012-01-22 16:48 ` Ben Greear
2012-01-22 19:14 ` David Miller
2012-01-22 19:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-01-22 21:00 ` Ben Greear [this message]
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