Re: [PATCH] TCP-Hybla proposal

Tobias DiPasquale
2005-02-23T00:41:47Z

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:14:47 -0800, David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:03:11 -0500 (EST)
> John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu> wrote:
>
> > An idea I've been toying with for a while now is completely abstracting
> > congestion control. Then you could have congestion control loadable
> > modules, which would avoid this mess of experimental algorithms inside the
> > main-line kernel. If done right, they might be able to work seamlessly
> > with SCTP, too. The tricky part is making sure the interface is complete
> > enough.
>
> The symbols exported to allow this would need to be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().

Why's that?

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