netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/7] dccp: Integration of dynamic feature activation

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Message-Id: <20081208.011639.169128034.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:16:39 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk
Cc:	dccp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] dccp: Integration of dynamic feature activation -
 part 3 (client side)

From: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>
Date: Sat,  6 Dec 2008 17:40:53 +0100

> This integrates feature-activation in the client:
> 
>  1. When dccp_parse_options() fails, the reset code is already set; request_sent\
>     _state_process() currently overrides this with `Packet Error', which is not
>     intended - changed to use the reset code supplied by dccp_parse_options().
> 
>  2. When feature negotiation fails, the socket should be marked as not usable,
>     so that the application is notified that an error occurred. This is achieved
>     by a new label 'unable_to_proceed': generating an error code of `Aborted',
>     setting the socket state to CLOSED, returning with ECOMM in sk_err.
> 
>  3. Avoids parsing the Ack twice in Respond state by not doing option processing
>     again in dccp_rcv_respond_partopen_state_process (as option processing has
>     already been done on the request_sock in dccp_check_req).
> 
> Since this addresses congestion-control initialisation, a corresponding
> FIXME has been removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>
> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@...di.co.nz>

Applied.
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