On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:05:55PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Um, why? I think this is there to help with "broken" userspace code > that was written before we enforced the rules of "you must claim an > interface before using it. As such, I don't think we can apply this > patch.
right now such broken userspace spams kern.log, etc. also it means you can run two or more instances of something that fail to claim the endpoint and then fight over packets from it - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
