From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 net] TCP_USER_TIMEOUT and tcp_keepalive should conform to RFC5482 Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 17:30:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20170809.173032.660035274684914457.davem@davemloft.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hkchu@google.com, ycheng@google.com, rao.shoaib@oracle.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: codesoldier1@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:48366 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752174AbdHJAaf (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2017 20:30:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Joe Smith Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 17:20:32 -0700 > Making Linux conform to standards and behavior that is logical seems > like a good enough reason. That's an awesome attitude to have when we're implementing something new and don't have the facility already. But when we have something already the only important consideration is not breaking existing apps which rely on that behavior. That is much, much, more important than standards compliance. If users are confused, just fix the documentation.