Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:08:24 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> To: Prafulla Deuskar <pdeuskar@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: RFC: TSO patch for current Message-ID: <44FDAF08.20407@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060905162542.GA63869@hub.freebsd.org> References: <2a41acea0609011551v40338539u4eef48d091dd12ab@mail.gmail.com> <44F9384C.9070902@freebsd.org> <2a41acea0609021741y481a04c0r42902166eaba78d7@mail.gmail.com> <20060905162542.GA63869@hub.freebsd.org>
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Prafulla Deuskar wrote: > Jack Vogel [jfvogel@gmail.com] wrote: > >>On 9/2/06, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> >>>I can't comment on the em part but the tcp_output.c stuff looks >>>very much like a straight port from NetBSD. If we take code from >>>the other BSDs we have to remark this in the emails we send with >>>patches and the commit message (otherwise we get accused of 'stealing >>>without attribution'). >> >>I dont know that I'd call it a straight port, rather I was working from some >>prototype code that Prafulla had working back on 4.7, but I think at that >>time that he may have patterned it after NetBSD. > > I don't think NetBSD had TSO support in 2002 when I first did the 4.7 patch > for internal testing. OK, perhaps they lifted it from your patch then. They just looks awfully similiar that's why I thought it came from NetBSD. -- Andre
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