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Commit e21ce8c7 authored by Ralf Baechle's avatar Ralf Baechle Committed by David S. Miller
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[NETROM]: Implement G8PZT Circuit reset for NET/ROM



NET/ROM is lacking a connection reset like TCP's RST flag which at times
may result in a connecting having to slowly timing out instead of just being
reset.  An earlier attempt to reset the connection by sending a
NR_CONNACK | NR_CHOKE_FLAG transport was inacceptable as it did result in
crashes of BPQ systems.  An alternative approach of introducing a new
transport type 7 (NR_RESET) has be implemented several years ago in
Paula Jayne Dowie G8PZT's Xrouter.

Implement NR_RESET for Linux's NET/ROM but like any messing with the state
engine consider this experimental for now and thus control it by a sysctl
(net.netrom.reset) which for the time being defaults to off.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRalf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent d2ce4bc3
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