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    dccp: Limit feature negotiation to connection setup phase · f74e91b6
    Gerrit Renker authored
    This patch limits feature (capability) negotation to the connection setup phase:
    
     1. Although it is theoretically possible to perform feature negotiation at any
        time (and RFC 4340 supports this), in practice this is prohibitively complex,
        as it requires to put traffic on hold for each new negotiation.
     2. As a byproduct of restricting feature negotiation to connection setup, the
        feature-negotiation retransmit timer is no longer required. This part is now
        mapped onto the protocol-level retransmission.
        Details indicating why timers are no longer needed can be found on
        http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/feature_negotiation/\
    
    
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    This patch disables anytime negotiation, subsequent patches work out full
    feature negotiation support for connection setup.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft....
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