netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: make urg+gso work for real this time

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Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:21:41 +0300
From:	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
To:	Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.cz>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Ilpo J??rvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>,
	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: make urg+gso work for real this time

Hello!

> This might turn out to be a dangerous decision. I am aware at least of
> one big application which uses urgent data and doesn't use SO_OOBINLINE:
> Oracle.

Yes, this is not some "rlogin"...


> Yes, of course it's broken, but do we really want to join the much-hated
> folks who are stuck with an only-we-do-it-correctly approach?

Well, we do not want to return to that company. :-)

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