ACK: [Trusty/Utopic SRU] Avoid "rides the rocket" and dropped packages

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Tue Jan 20 17:19:00 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 05:38:46PM +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
> Theoretically this should just be a reminder and things should come
> via stable. I am just not sure when and whether we rather want it
> done before that.
> 
> Previously there was only the first patch but then it was realized that
> it caused a regression. So the second patch was done.
> Both are now in our 3.18 and are in 3.19 upstream. Just network patches
> are hard to predict getting into stable and some people start to get a
> little edgy to get it fixed in Trusty at least.
> 
> Note same patches can be applied to Trusty and Utopic but need a little
> "fuzz" accepted in Trusty.

I've seen several dmesg's where this error is quite common, so I think
getting a fix in sooner is better. This looks like a reasonable (though
not ideal) solution, and at any rate it's better than dropping packets.

Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>




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