On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 18:28, Jeff Garzik wrote:

jamal wrote:

quoted

The change is simple if theres consensus to go this path.

Can you resend your patch?

I didnt send any patch - but heres one that looks right - havent tried
compiling it.

My main objection was that any change should be made in the core, not in 
individual net drivers.

Attached patch resolves that concern

Another objection was that it seemed that some of the proposed solutions 
for clearing the queue on link down were imposing app-specific policy on 
the overall kernel.

Aren't there cases where people would -not- want the queue to be cleared?

Thats a good question and your point of imposing policy in the kernel is
valid. I know that i would probably want packets to appear they are
going out when the wire is pulled from underneath me.
Theres possibly people who would want it differently - so for we havent
heard from them. Maybe poll far and wide - or push it in and wait for
them to whine.

cheers,
jamal