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
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