From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] select congestion control with one sysctl Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:23:02 -0800 Message-ID: <421D1E66.5090301@osdl.org> References: <421CF5E5.1060606@ev-en.org> <20050223135732.39e62c6c.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Baruch Even , netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, yee-ting.li@nuim.ie, doug.leith@nuim.ie To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20050223135732.39e62c6c.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: >For the millionth time, you can't just delete the existing sysctls. >That is a user visisble interface. > >Instead, you have to make them at least appear to select a >single congestion control algorithm as I stated in the >following posting: > >http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110909973530321&w=2 > > I am heading in a different direction with making the TCP congestion protocols a real infrastructure. After the initial version gets done, then I will go back and add compatiablity interface hooks as required.