Hi Doug, On 14/08/2019 08.56, Doug Ledford wrote: > Good Lord...RDS was taken into the kernel in Feb of 2009, so over 10 > years ago. The patch to put PF_RDS/AF_RDS/SOL_RDS was taken into > include/linux/socket.h Feb 26, 2009. The RDS ports were allocated by > IANA on Feb 27 and May 20, 2009. And you *still* have software that > needs this? I'll let Santosh elaborate on this, but it looks like we (i.e. Oracle) do: >From our Gerrit, posted on Aug 08, 2019, 10:39:29 AM UTC-07:00: --------%<--------%<--------%<--------%<--------%<--------%<-------- Santosh Shilimkar Acked-by +1 Patch Set 1: Acked-by+1 Unfortunately we need to keep these around. --------%<--------%<--------%<--------%<--------%<--------%<-------- > As of today, does your current build of Oracle software still require this, > or have you at least fixed it up in your modern builds? > I'll let Santosh answer that question as well. Thanks, Gerd