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Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:45:22 -0500 From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@...il.com> To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> CC: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH v4 2/3] TCPCT part 1b: sysctl_tcp_cookie_size, socket option TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONS, functions Eric Dumazet wrote: > William Allen Simpson a écrit : >> These functions will also be used in subsequent patches that implement >> additional features. >> > > +#define TCP_EXTEND_TIMESTAMP (1 << 4) /* Initiate 64-bit timestamps */ > > What is this for ? > Reserving a bit in the sockopt for a future feature (described in the aforementioned end2end-interest email messages). Certainly, reserving bits seems to be common elsewhere in Linux code. I'm trying to coordinate this with the *BSD developers, too, so it helps to keep API documentation synchronized. Is that a problem? -- 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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