[2216] in linux-net channel archive
Re: net module patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bjorn Ekwall)
Fri Mar 22 15:11:53 1996
From: bj0rn@blox.se (Bjorn Ekwall)
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), tdyas@eden.rutgers.edu (Tom Dyas)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 20:30:04 +0100 (MET)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0tzuTR-0005HcC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk> from "Alan Cox" at Mar 22, 96 00:12:57 am
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> When. However we won't end up with a single protinfo union because you can
> stack protocols. IP over IPX, IP over DDP that kind of stuff all exist. That
> means trouble - thats why the AX.25/NetROM stuff is structured via pointers -
> you can have a netrom socket carrying multiple sets of IP data itself running
> over an AX.25 connection that may be shared with a user socket and/or IP
> traffic.
>
> > moot. Makes no difference to me which one is used. We should hash this
> > point out, however.
>
> Worry about it post 2.0, because otherwise you are arguing about 'old'
> structures.
>
> Alan
Good points!
Now I think I see where we are heading.
So, I hereby withdraw my argumentation for a "big" union in struct sock...
While I'm at it; my patch patch to sock.c should of course have had
"#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES" instead of "#ifdef MODULE", but I guess my
brain was still pounding away with a parallel module debug session,
or was just on leave...
Cheers,
Bjorn <bj0rn@blox.se>
