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Re: comment about struct tcp_tw_bucket in struct sock

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: comment about struct tcp_tw_bucket in struct sock
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 21:23:05 +0200
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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 12:17:27PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> When you edit the layout of struct sock you assume
> the full responsibility that you might be breaking
> something that uses struct sock.  This includes
> third party modules.

What third party modules are you refering too ? 

I know openafs did or still does the cardinal sin of duplicating struct inode
and TCP has this hack too since ages, but other than that I hope 
"cut'n'paste" usage of structures is not common.

-Andi

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