netdev - Re: [PATCH] sctp: user perfect name for Delayed SACK Timer option

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Message-ID: <4D369E03.2000109@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:17:07 +0800
From:	Shan Wei <shanwei@...fujitsu.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	vladislav.yasevich@...com, yjwei@...fujitsu.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: user perfect name for Delayed SACK Timer option

David Miller wrote, at 01/19/2011 03:39 PM:
> From: Shan Wei <shanwei@...fujitsu.com>
> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:33:30 +0800
> 
>> The option name of Delayed SACK Timer should be SCTP_DELAYED_SACK,
>> not SCTP_DELAYED_ACK.
>>
>> Reference:
>> 8.1.19.  Get or Set Delayed SACK Timer (SCTP_DELAYED_SACK)
>> （http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpsocket-25)
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> You can't make this change, you'll break applications using the
> existing definition.

No documents guide user to use SCTP_DELAYED_ACK option.
I double that there is no applications using this option.

If, there be. How about keeping this be concomitant with SCTP_DELAYED_SACK?

-- 
Best Regards
-----
Shan Wei
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