On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 12:02 -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 08:47:44 -0800 > > > So if the reaction of this is "Patch is coming from Android, must be > > yet another hack", it is quite not fair. > > I have not said this. > > But the attitude of that all of a sudden we must care urgently about > some Android issue they have waited as long as possible to address > upstream... that stinks. > > How come our opinions and ideas about how to approach solving this > problem were not of any value two years ago? Why? > > We've waited two years, surely Android folks can wait however long it > takes to discuss this design and alternative approaches.
Then we are in perfect agreement. I did not say there was a sudden urgency, sorry for the misunderstanding. I only know that TCP listener rewrite in 4.4 will again trigger all these pesky Android bugs, I would like avoiding the mess I had to cope when TIME_WAIT were merged into regular ehash established chains. This is the major reason I worked closely with Lorenzo. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
