From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> To: "La Monte H.P. Yarroll" <piggy@em.cig.mot.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister table Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:15:38 -0700 (PDT) Cc: "Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@alacritech.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sctp-developers-list@cig.mot.com 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/