From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:39:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:39:30 -0400 Received: from cx97923-a.phnx3.az.home.com ([24.9.112.194]:16798 "EHLO grok.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:39:25 -0400 Message-ID: <3B1EC74D.6C720537@candelatech.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:14:05 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: "La Monte H.P. Yarroll" , "Matt D. Robinson" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sctp-developers-list@cig.mot.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister table In-Reply-To: <200106051659.LAA20094@em.cig.mot.com> <3B1E5CC1.553B4EF1@alacritech.com> <15134.42714.3365.32233@theor.em.cig.mot.com> <15134.43914.98253.998655@pizda.ninka.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "David S. Miller" wrote: > > La Monte H.P. Yarroll writes: > > Matt D. Robinson writes: > > > Is there any way to add in the capability to _replace_ TCP with > > > your own, so you can use your own layer? > > ABSOLUTELY NOT! > > And I will never in my lifetime allow such a facility to be added to > the Linux kernel. > > This allows people to make proprietary implementations of TCP under > Linux. And we don't want this just as we don't want to add a way to > allow someone to do a proprietary Linux VM. Then again, maybe someone has a reason to use a different TCP stack, ie to support something like a high-availiblity stack between two different machines... Why would you be scared of a proprietary TCP stack? If Open Source is so much better (and I believe it is), then there would be nothing to lose. And if the new stack helped a small subset of people who would otherwise have an even sorrier life implementing it on some other platform, then that is better, right? -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear