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Message-ID: <4992.1184389170@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:59:30 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] cleanup congestion control options
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 06:09:54 +0200, Adrian Bunk said:
> This patch contains the following cleanups:
> - note in the prompt if an option depends on EXPERIMENTAL
Who decided whether a particular option is 'experimental' or not?
Lawrence S. Brakmo and Larry L. Peterson. TCP Vegas: end to end congestion
avoidance on a global Internet. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
Communications, 13(8), October 1995.
> config TCP_CONG_VEGAS
> - tristate "TCP Vegas"
> + tristate "TCP Vegas (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> depends on EXPERIMENTAL
I think the *right* fix here is '- depends on EXPERIMENTAL'. 1995. Geez. :)
(Probably *all* of the 'experimental' tags for congestion control need an in-depth
review - but Vegas struck me as particularly egregious.)
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