netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: allow user to create repair socket without window probes

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Date:   Thu, 12 Jul 2018 14:34:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sbaranoff@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, avagin@...tuozzo.com, xemul@...tuozzo.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: allow user to create repair socket without window
 probes

From: Stefan Baranoff <sbaranoff@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 17:31:10 -0400

> Under rare conditions where repair code may be used it is possible that
> window probes are either unnecessary or undesired. If the user knows that
> window probes are not wanted or needed this change allows them to skip
> sending them when a socket comes out of repair.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Baranoff <sbaranoff@...il.com>

Applied.