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authorGerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>2007-11-21 07:09:56 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-01-28 17:54:46 -0500
commite333b3edc489151afda2a4f6c798842c64cb67a4 (patch)
treeb392052fe3a4c8cdc4d0026709d1b9cd5e215921 /net/dccp/ccids
parentebe6f7e73c3efec1de295205806b4550fcb468cd (diff)
[DCCP]: Promote CCID2 as default CCID
This patch addresses the following problems: 1. DCCP relies for its proper functioning on having at least one CCID module enabled (as in TCP plugable congestion control). Currently it is possible to disable both CCIDs and thus leave the DCCP module in a compiled, but entirely non-functional state: no sockets can be created when no CCID is available. Furthermore, the protocol is (again like TCP) not intended to be used without CCIDs. Last, a non-empty CCID list is needed for doing CCID feature negotiation. 2. Internally the default CCID that is advertised by the Linux host is set to CCID2 (DCCPF_INITIAL_CCID in include/linux/dccp.h). Disabling CCID2 in the Kconfig menu without changing the defaults leads to a failure `module not found' when trying to load the dccp module (which internally tries to load the default CCID). 3. The specification (RFC 4340, sec. 10) treats CCID2 somewhat like a `minimum common denominator'; the specification says that: * "New connections start with CCID 2 for both endpoints" * "A DCCP implementation intended for general use, such as an implementation in a general-purpose operating system kernel, SHOULD implement at least CCID 2. The intent is to make CCID 2 broadly available for interoperability [...]" Providing CCID2 as minimum-required CCID (like Reno/Cubic in TCP) thus seems reasonable. Hence this patch automatically selects CCID2 when DCCP is enabled. Documentation also added. Discussions with Ian McDonald on this subject are gratefully acknowledged. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/dccp/ccids')
-rw-r--r--net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig13
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig b/net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig
index 80f469887691..f37af17556ba 100644
--- a/net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig
+++ b/net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig
@@ -20,18 +20,9 @@ config IP_DCCP_CCID2
20 to the user. For example, a hypothetical application that 20 to the user. For example, a hypothetical application that
21 transferred files over DCCP, using application-level retransmissions 21 transferred files over DCCP, using application-level retransmissions
22 for lost packets, would prefer CCID 2 to CCID 3. On-line games may 22 for lost packets, would prefer CCID 2 to CCID 3. On-line games may
23 also prefer CCID 2. 23 also prefer CCID 2. See RFC 4341 for further details.
24 24
25 CCID 2 is further described in RFC 4341, 25 CCID2 is the default CCID used by DCCP.
26 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4341.txt
27
28 This text was extracted from RFC 4340 (sec. 10.1),
29 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4340.txt
30
31 To compile this CCID as a module, choose M here: the module will be
32 called dccp_ccid2.
33
34 If in doubt, say M.
35 26
36config IP_DCCP_CCID2_DEBUG 27config IP_DCCP_CCID2_DEBUG
37 bool "CCID2 debugging messages" 28 bool "CCID2 debugging messages"