netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] ipv4: allow IP_PMTUDISC_INTERFACE generate fragments if packet size is larger than interface mtu

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Message-Id: <20140224.202840.1970998149311770621.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:28:40 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, fweimer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] ipv4: allow IP_PMTUDISC_INTERFACE generate
 fragments if packet size is larger than interface mtu

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 01:58:14 +0100

> I hope changing this socket option slightly to be more permissive while
> already being in a released kernel is acceptable.

There is no way to detect the change in semantics, and logically
therefore no way to safely use it.
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