From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
To: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] llc: SOCK_DGRAM interface fixes
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:54:21 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060808175421.GD27312@mandriva.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060808163618.GA1992@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Em Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 08:36:18PM +0400, Alexey Kuznetsov escreveu:
> Hello!
>
> > This fix goes against the old historical comments about UNIX98 semantics
> > but without this fix SOCK_DGRAM is broken and useless. So either ANK's
> > interpretation was incorect or UNIX98 standard was wrong.
>
> Just found this reference to me. :-)
>
> The comment migrated from tcp.c. It is only about connected SOCK_STREAM
> sockets, I do not see how it can make SOCK_DGRAM broken or useless.
Its just that the work to get the AF_LLC code closer to the AF_INET
structure was suspended before the SOCK_STREAM code was separated from the
SOCK_DGRAM one, moving PF_LLC to sk->sk_prot-> land, so the comment is
indeed about SOCK_STREAM part, not DGRAM.
- Arnaldo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-08 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-03 16:21 [PATCH] llc: SOCK_DGRAM interface fixes Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-03 16:38 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2006-08-03 23:39 ` David Miller
2006-08-03 21:52 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2006-08-08 16:36 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-08-08 16:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-08 17:54 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
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