netdev - Re: [NET]: Please revert disallowing zero listen queues

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Date:	Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:45:11 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, weid@...css.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [NET]: Please revert disallowing zero listen queues

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:37:06 -0800 (PST)

> Everything I've ever seen clearly states that a backlog of
> zero means that zero connections are allowed.
> 
> So we're not "disallowing" a backlog argument of zero to
> listen().  We'll accept that just fine, the only thing that
> happens is that you'll get what you ask for, that being
> no connections :-)

I'm not saying that a backlog of zero might mean allow one,
in which case we do need to revert the change.  Rather, I'm
trying to clarify what is the real issue here as Gerrit's
email implied that listen() with a zero backlog returns
an error now, which is not true.
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