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Re: PATCH: kmalloc packet slab

To: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: PATCH: kmalloc packet slab
From: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:01:48 -0500
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>, torvalds@xxxxxxxx, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 12:51:28AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
 > On Llu, 2004-12-27 at 22:23, David S. Miller wrote:
 > > If we are really going to do something like this, it should
 > > be calculated properly and be determined per-interface
 > > type as netdevs are registered.
 > 
 > Fine by me, I'm just going through plausible looking changes in the Red
 > Hat tree. You might want to slightly injure someone internally until
 > they drop that too 8)

Internal injuries unnecessary. Regardless of outcome of this patch,
Fedora will pick up whatever happens upstream instead of carrying
this any longer. This and a few other patches have been stagnating
in our tree for far longer than they should have been.

                Dave


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