Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets

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.
 
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