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Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:33:28 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: wangchen@...fujitsu.com Cc: yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] RAW6: Do not allow set IPV6_CHECKSUM for ICMPv6 socket From: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:18:52 +0800 > Why not remove the RFC-breaking code from applications? Because once applications exist and are deployed we cannot break them with careless kernel changes. A user should not get a broken traceroute6 binary just because he upgrades his kernel, that's a bug. The RFC is not a set of laws that must be followed under all circumstances. In this case it is worse to break applications on people's systems than be compliant to some standard. You need to understand this basic premise before we can communicate at all about this topic. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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