netdev - Re: commit 64ff3b938ec6782e6585a83d5459b98b0c3f6eb8 breaks rlogin

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902051530520.3048@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:32:20 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	jeff.chua.linux@...il.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	rjw@...k.pl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: commit 64ff3b938ec6782e6585a83d5459b98b0c3f6eb8 breaks rlogin



On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, David Miller wrote:
> 
> Herbert, please help Jeff try to track down the cause of this.
> If we can't figure it out soon I'll have to revert.

Why is there even any discussion?

URG is broken as a concept, no sane/modern use case exists. It's totally 
uninteresting _except_ as a "legacy binary" issue, so

 - there's no point in trying to "improve" it.

 - even just a whiff of "breaks legacy app" just says "revert it".

No?

		Linus
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