Re: [Lksctp-developers] Experimental status of SCTP?

[Nils C. <nil...@lu...>]

Sounds good to me, would you consider submitting a patch to remove the  
experimental label?

Would be most useful as our distributor won't take responsibility for  
anything marked experimental.

Cheers,
Nils


On Oct 12, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Vlad Yasevich wrote:

> Nils Carlson wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> To what degree is the kernel SCTP implementation still experimental?
>> The company for which I'm consulting currently uses several
>> proprietary SCTP stacks, but we're looking to replace them with the
>> kernel stack, if it's sufficiently stable and complete.
>>
>> I took a look at the web-page, but there seems to be little
>> information as to the completeness, a number of outstanding bugs is
>> about all. Any and all information much appreciated.
>
> I am guessing it's time to get rid of Experimental Status.  It's been
> part of the mainline kernel since the very beginning.
>
> The base protocol is complete and there are multiple extensions that
> have been added.  The API is the only thing thats kind-of in flux.   
> Once
> the spec comes out and we implement it, the implementation will
> definitely stop bing experimental.
>
> I know of multiple providers that use the in-kernel SCTP stack with
> very hight degree of reliability.  This is where you would have
> to evaluate the implementation.
>
> -vlad
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Nils
>>
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