On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 03:58 +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > Andrew Beverley wrote: > > I would also like to see as many of the POM included in the stable > > kernel. It's a bit of a headache to patch in what I want each time I > > update the kernel, and on a fresh system I have to install CURL just to > > update POM just to add connlimit to the kernel... > > IMHO, patching kernels to add some certain shiny-feature(TM) is > generally a bad idea if you don't know how the patch internally works or > if you can't directly get support from the author of such patch. Yes, agreed. I was more thinking of those that (look like) they have been stable for a few years. > Anyway, if you think that some certain patch is stable enough to push it > forward to mainline, encourage the author to push it forward. Probably > there is a reason why he decided not to do that. Okay, I've emailed the author (of connlimit) but not received a reply. I did ask him a while ago on the same subject but didn't really get a reason as to why it is not. Anybody have any ideas? In this case can *I* push it forward to the stable kernel? Regards, Andy Beverley _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
