> On 30 Jul 2018, at 00:42, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 3:05 AM Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant > <ke...@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote: >> >> To whom it may concern (Dave) ;-) >> >> This is a general plea that when patches are submitted to upstream please >> can we also commit them to our current development repositories. > > Mea culpa. I was hiding under my desk expecting the 10GigE+ world to > unite and march upon me, torches ablaze and, while gearing up for > battle there, collecting data on how bql and split-gso interacted at > various speeds, I didn't expect davem to just take the darn patch.
They’re gathering firewood….and petrol tankers :-) Actually I too was pretty surprised to see it committed. > I have this whole lovely, giant, rant ,and plots that I'm not gonna be > motivated to finish now. > > This does raise a long term point however in that as we go mainline > more tweaks and patches *will* arrive > via normal linux kernel processes from others. Do you want maintainership > there? Personally, Noooo! :-) This sounds like backports territory. And I’m back to that idea of dropping the kmod package and introducing cake via a kernel patch for openwrt. *shudder* > >> 4.19 isn’t even released yet, so most people, including Openwrt, get cake >> via our 'out of tree’ repositories. This is also a good idea from a point >> of view of testing. I appreciate the latest changes are of ‘one line’ type >> variety and so mostly harmless but ideally it should at least be in our own >> out of tree repo’s first/at the same time. >> >> I had to submit the latest ‘split-gso by default’ patch, accepted to >> upstream, manually to our own cake repo for Toke to commit. I note with >> some distress that there’s an ‘iproute2’ upstream patch pending to enable >> the userspace side of the same thing that currently is NOT in the ‘tc-adv’ >> repo. >> >> Dare I also suggest that a man page update would be appreciated by >> iproute2-next too. > > I started reviewing the man page's gobble of troff, started writing a > tuning section (and decided that needed a web page), went looking for > other missing keywords, and... we haven't heard from logan in a > while... my back is covered with black jube jells and dust bunnies > from hiding under my desk. > > and I dunno, has anyone read the man page lately? There's a HUGE > opportunity to bikeshed there. Lord no, not the bikeshed! I was more thinking of including the two new keywords that had been introduced….. not going wild :-) Kevin
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