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Re: PATCH: handle NAK packets sent by remote stub.
- To: jtc at redback dot com
- Subject: Re: PATCH: handle NAK packets sent by remote stub.
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 13:53:31 +1100
- CC: gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <5mya8zqhbg.fsf@jtc.redbacknetworks.com>
"J.T. Conklin" wrote:
> The one concern that I remember was the risk of spurious NAKs from the
> target interfering with the proper operation remote protocol. This is
> a possibility, but in my opinion it's no more so than spurious ACKs.
> Without ACKs and NAKs being framed/checksummed, the remote protocol is
> simply vulnerable to communication errors.
Given the protocol can only reasonably handle data overruns from burst
transfers, I don't see the ``-'' as a problem.
I've committed the patch.
Andrew