From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:16:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:15:51 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:62346 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:15:41 -0400 From: "David S. Miller" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15134.43914.98253.998655@pizda.ninka.net> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:15:38 -0700 (PDT) To: "La Monte H.P. Yarroll" Cc: "Matt D. Robinson" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sctp-developers-list@cig.mot.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister table In-Reply-To: <15134.42714.3365.32233@theor.em.cig.mot.com> In-Reply-To: <200106051659.LAA20094@em.cig.mot.com> <3B1E5CC1.553B4EF1@alacritech.com> <15134.42714.3365.32233@theor.em.cig.mot.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 13) "Crater Lake" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org La Monte H.P. Yarroll writes: > Matt D. Robinson writes: > > Is there any way to add in the capability to _replace_ TCP with > > your own, so you can use your own layer? ABSOLUTELY NOT! And I will never in my lifetime allow such a facility to be added to the Linux kernel. This allows people to make proprietary implementations of TCP under Linux. And we don't want this just as we don't want to add a way to allow someone to do a proprietary Linux VM. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com