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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: restore rcv_wscale in a repair mode
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From: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:28:07 +0400

> This patch doesn't break a backward compatibility.
> If someone uses it in a old scheme, a rcv window
> will be restored with the same bug (rcv_wscale = 0).

The whole world is not little-endian.  This does in fact break
backwards compatability.

You will need to extend this in a more reasonable manner.