[openib-general] Re: [PATCH applied] return -ENOPROTOOPT on an unsupported socket option

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Tom Duffy <thomas.duffy.99 at alumni.brown.edu>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH applied] return -ENOPROTOOPT on an unsupported socket option
> 
> 
> On Dec 19, 2005, at 3:05 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Hmm. Which option do you have in mind, specifically?
> 
> LINGER comes to mind.  But something like SYNCNT, WINDOW_CLAMP, or  
> QUICKACK doesn't make much sense on SDP, so why not just say we  
> support it?
> 
> > The right thing, in my eyes, is to emulate a TCP socket.
> > So we dont want to support options that TCP doesnt support.
> 
> TCP supports many more options.  Perhaps we should special case those.

OK, thats what I'll do longer term. I reverted this patch for now. 

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