On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Bill Davidsen wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, David S. Miller wrote: > > This particular case has been discussed to death in the past > > and I really recommend people read up there before dragging this > > out further. > > It will keep coming back because it's a real problem. I do agree that the > hidden patch is not the desired way to solve the problem, but until there > is a reasonable (not requiring a guru or large manual effort) solution > people will keep bringing it up. And it severely violates the principle of least surprise. Its unfortunate that this principle isn't more widely discussed and considered on lkml. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html