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    * David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

    > > but the main and fundamental question still remains unanswered (more
    > > than 3 weeks after Andrew asked that question): why was this piece
    > > of general infrastructure merged via net.git and not submitted to
    > > lkml ever? The code touching -mm does _not_ count as "review".
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    > I already stated this was a mistake and it won't happen again in the
    > future.

    sorry - that bit of the thread didnt seem to make it to lkml. I just saw
    this incomplete discussion with a denial and with no resolution.

    And you did the right thing anyway by thinking in terms of a generic
    piece of infrastructure instead of hiding it away into say
    include/net/pcounter.h (which nobody could have objected against).

    I sometimes think that the forced isolation of subsystems (rather
    strongly enforced both by -mm and by linux-next) and their hiding away
    on non-lkml lists will eventually hurt the core kernel because less and
    less people will be willing to go the trouble of doing proper
    cross-subsystem development. That results in duplicated or specialistic
    infrastructure, increased code size and longer term, ultimately less
    performance. (by the time we notice _that_ it will probably be too late
    to do anything about it)

    Ingo


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