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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: revert to old definition of `before'
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:25:36 -0800 (PST)
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From: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:54:54 +0000

> Hi Dave,
> 
> as per earlier email, can you please revert the definition of the
> TCP `before' relation: there is code which implicitly depends on it.
> 
> Furthermore, this definition appears in textbooks such as Stevens
> and therefore, even if the newer definition may have nicer properties,
> it is safer to stick with the old one.

No problem, patch applied, thanks Gerrit.