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 19:31:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:31:37 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:45707 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:31:25 -0400 From: "David S. Miller" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15134.48456.5360.764458@pizda.ninka.net> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 16:31:20 -0700 (PDT) To: "Matt D. Robinson" Cc: "La Monte H.P. Yarroll" , 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: <3B1EBB13.34721ED9@alacritech.com> In-Reply-To: <200106051659.LAA20094@em.cig.mot.com> <3B1E5CC1.553B4EF1@alacritech.com> <15134.42714.3365.32233@theor.em.cig.mot.com> <15134.43914.98253.998655@pizda.ninka.net> <3B1EBB13.34721ED9@alacritech.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 Matt D. Robinson writes: > > 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. > > And if as Joe User I don't want Linux TCP, but Joe's TCP, they can't > do that (in a supportable way)? Are you saying Linux is, "do it my > way, or it's the highway"? If Joe's TCP is opensource, they are more than welcome to publish such changes. The loadable module functionality allows proprietary binary-only drivers for devices, not binary-only proprietary reimplementations of core parts of the kernel. Ask Linus himself if you do not believe me and you think my position stinks. He's the person you have to convince in the end. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com