From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266054AbTG1Kex (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2003 06:34:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265955AbTG1Kew (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2003 06:34:52 -0400 Received: from 5.Red-80-32-157.pooles.rima-tde.net ([80.32.157.5]:5640 "EHLO smtp.newipnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265772AbTG1Ket (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2003 06:34:49 -0400 Message-ID: <200307281249530272.12DD7F41@192.168.128.16> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:49:53 +0200 From: "Carlos Velasco" To: "David Lang" , "David S. Miller" Cc: bloemsaa@xs4all.nl, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, layes@loran.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 27/07/2003 at 21:37 David Lang wrote: >P.S. there are standards that are written documents and there are >standards that are 'how everyone does it' for the most part Linux follows >both types of standards, in this case the network team has decided to >ignore the 'how everyone else does it' standards becouse there is nothing >in a written standard that they are violating No problem behaving different. The questions are... What is the advantage of doing it in this case? Why not implementing an easy way to do linux behave like the other OS and systems? Regards, Carlos Velasco