Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:15:14 +0400 | | From | Evgeniy Polyakov <> | | Subject | Re: [GIT]: Networking | |
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:47:59PM -0700, Linus Torvalds (torvalds@linux-foundation.org) wrote:
> I really don't see the e1000 and netxen updates as being critical either.
> Sure, they look like driver improvement, but "improvement" is not what the
> -rc3+ series is about.
Netxen driver update contains bug fixes (leak and races) and hardware
workaround. Well, it has driver version bump either, I agress, that
one was an error. E1000 contains number of regression fixes and
performance improvement via module parameter change.
> Same goes for all the loopback changes. They look like cleanups or feature
> enables.
It fixes performance regression.
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Evgeniy Polyakov
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