[PATCH v12 00/13] net: tcp: improve tcp support in legacy stack

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 05:31:30PM +0300, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote:

> Legacy TCP stack is bad. Here are some of the known issues:
>  * tcp packet from other connection can break a current one
>  * tcp send sequence always starts from zero
>  * bad tcp options processing
>  * strange assumptions on packet size for selective acknowledge
>  * tcp interface assumes one of the two scenarios:
>      - data downloading from remote host to a board
>      - request-response exchange with a small packets
>    so it's not possible to upload large amount of data from the
>    board to remote host.
>  * wget test generate bad tcp stream, test should fail but it passes instead
> 
> This series of patches fixes all of the above issues.

I know Peter asked on the last one, but I want to ask as well. With lwIP
merged, why do we want to add features to the old stack? I can see
fixing issues, but not adding new functionality as well. Thanks.

-- 
Tom
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