Posted Oct 28, 2008 19:01 UTC (Tue) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: ECN by njs
Parent article: Stable kernel 2.6.27.4
Not angry, disgusted. I read through the whole launchpad thread, and was exposed to the denialism you must have missed.
I agree that 8.10 with the procps workaround will work OK on low-speed links. But the workaround is enormously more complicated, and has much broader effect, than the patch, so would need more testing, not less. And how will the workaround ever be got rid of?
My brother runs Ubuntu on his laptop, and brings it to me for fixups. The last upgrade (F -> G) was such a mess I that haven't encouraged him to bring it in for H. I certainly wouldn't suggest he do it himself.