From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: olh@suse.de
Cc: marcelo@conectiva.com.br, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: comment about struct tcp_tw_bucket in struct sock
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 12:17:27 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030514.121727.74733052.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030514080043.GA2575@suse.de>
From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 10:00:43 +0200
On Tue, May 13, David S. Miller wrote:
> It's documented in tcp.h already.
True, but not in struct sock.
When you edit the layout of struct sock you assume
the full responsibility that you might be breaking
something that uses struct sock. This includes
third party modules.
You shouldn't be making changing to it lightly. How this made TCP
blow up is the negative feedback you get for trying to change struct
sock ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-14 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-13 21:05 comment about struct tcp_tw_bucket in struct sock Olaf Hering
2003-05-13 23:31 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-14 2:44 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-05-14 8:00 ` Olaf Hering
2003-05-14 19:17 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-05-14 19:23 ` Andi Kleen
2003-05-14 19:34 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-14 19:57 ` Andi Kleen
2003-05-14 20:02 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-14 8:32 ` Andi Kleen
2003-05-14 19:18 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-14 19:21 ` Andi Kleen
2003-05-22 0:52 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-05-22 8:02 ` Andi Kleen
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