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Re: TP4 over IP and EON support to be removed in -current/6.0
On Fri Nov 14 2008 at 20:32:22 -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
>
> To help make the kernel locking simplier/better, a major source of
> pain will be removed.
> This is the capability of using TP4 over IP and IP over CLNP or CLNP
> over IP. No longer
> will netinet and netiso be able to directly call each other.
>
> I doubt this will significantly inconvenience anyone but here's a
> head up anyways.
>
Awesome, thanks! I don't really know offhand what the locking benefits
are, but I'm much more grateful for the modularity implications of this.
(I wonder if this is a good time to bring up the old "should we just
let non-inet domains bite it"-question?)
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