Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:32:58 +0300 (EEST) | From | Pekka Savola <> | Subject | Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets |
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On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Ben Greear wrote: > If they are useful to some people, and have zero performance affect on others > (due to being a configurable kernel feature), then what is your > complaint?
3) Added features and complexity makes it more difficult to maintain the kernel (you could say this is a variant of 1)
4) Patches that have only a little debugging/etc. value are probably useful, but mainly for a specific set of people, and this would seem to be best handled by external patches.
> 1) General increase in #ifdef'd code. This actually seems like > a pretty good argument, but I haven't seen anyone mention it > specifically.
Always implied from maintenance point-of-view.
-- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords
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