From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:09:28 -0700 Message-ID: <460C6348.5030904@osdl.org> References: <20070327214754.GA11677@dag-work> <20070327.153025.45876618.davem@davemloft.net> <46d726f90703290756k1894b0aal8df85d46d8c2a25e@mail.gmail.com> <20070329.114139.55510589.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: predrag.hodoba@gmail.com, dagriego@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:45021 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934202AbXC3BJe (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:09:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070329.114139.55510589.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > From: "Predrag Hodoba" > Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:56:22 +0200 > > >> Need for such an API is to a degree indicated in the Carrier Grade Linux >> requirements by The Linux Foundation (former OSDL). >> > > Something being in the CGL specification is to me exactly a great > reason NOT to add it. That specification is so full of garbage it's > unbelievable. > > Thanks, you've given me one more reason not to even remotely consider > adding this feature. > Agreed, CGL is a vendor driven group that has always wanted to replicate proprietary misfeatures onto Linux. There is a real requirement to provide high availability but there should be no requirement to implement the solution in the same crap way as legacy Unix.