Re: RFC: TSO patch for current

From: Andre Oppermann <andre_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:08:24 +0200
Prafulla Deuskar wrote:
> Jack Vogel [jfvogel_at_gmail.com] wrote:
> 
>>On 9/2/06, Andre Oppermann <andre_at_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
Received on Tue Sep 05 2006 - 15:08:32 UTC

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