From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: restore rcv_wscale in a repair mode Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:25:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20120917.132521.2171143815764276535.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1347571687-3539973-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xemul@parallels.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net To: avagin@openvz.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1347571687-3539973-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Andrew Vagin Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:28:07 +0400 > This patch doesn't break a backward compatibility. > If someone uses it in a old scheme, a rcv window > will be restored with the same bug (rcv_wscale = 0). The whole world is not little-endian. This does in fact break backwards compatability. You will need to extend this in a more reasonable manner.