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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Juliusz.Chroboczek@pps.jussieu.fr
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	andy.grover@oracle.com
Subject: Re: RDS: no freely available protocol specification?
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:02:08 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090311.010208.67934717.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7i63ihm3pq.fsf@lanthane.pps.jussieu.fr>

From: Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek@pps.jussieu.fr>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:07:45 +0100

> I am wondering whether we wish to encourage the use of proprietary
> (undocumented) protocols, and I wish that the kernel crowd should really
> try to put some pressure on the Oracle guys to get the RDS protocol spec
> published as an RFC, or at the very least submitted as an Internet Draft,
> before it is released as part of the Linux kernel.

There is nothing proprietary about a protocol for which you have
the source code to a full implementation.

And having an RFC or even a draft for a protocol is not a prerequesite
for it being included in the Linux kernel.

So put your bad-juju back in your pocket, kthx.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-11  8:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-10 22:07 RDS: no freely available protocol specification? Juliusz Chroboczek
2009-03-10 23:10 ` Andy Grover
2009-03-11  0:04   ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2009-03-11  8:02 ` David Miller [this message]

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