Re: 2.4.3 tcp window id causes problems talking to windows clients

[Alan Cox]

> to be working quite well (except for the lack of swap reclamation-- I 
> appreciate the reasoning, but it makes upgrading older machines very 
> difficult.)  However, I would rather, for maintenance and sanity 

-ac will acquire swap cache reclaim in time, dunno about Linus tree but
I assume it will once it has 0 cost on hot paths. Right now there are
serious 2.4 vm correctness issues to fix first.

> Is there any plan to include the zerocopy patches into the stock kernel? 
>   The win2k dial-up/window id problem is really a showstopper but hasn't 
> generated much traffic on lkml or the digests. 
> 

I'd hope so. The binfmt_misc and file size security holes that are fixed
in -ac I also want to try and push to Linus for 2.4.4