Re: True on TRANSMIT ERROR TIMEOUT

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Re: True on TRANSMIT ERROR TIMEOUT

To:	Andrey Savochkin <saw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: True on TRANSMIT ERROR TIMEOUT
From:	Andrew Morton <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Thu, 15 Jun 2000 07:01:47 +0000
Cc:	netdev <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
References:	<39461BB3.299DD807@xxxxxxxxxx> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006141420380.370-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <39483426.B07E4BA@xxxxxxxxxx>, <39483426.B07E4BA@xxxxxxxxxx>; from "Andrew Morton" on Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 01:40:54AM <20000615122401.B3638@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Andrey Savochkin wrote:
> 
> TX timeout routine catches cases that shouldn't happen in real life.

That's what I said :)

And some time ago Donald has pointed at a history of people putting in
bandaids and claiming to have "fixed the problem" when they really have
not.

We would be very bad to do that.

But there is real value in just keeping the damn things working.

Perhaps 'stable' kernels should have the bandaids, and development
kernels shouldn't.

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