Re: patch: policy update by id

[jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>]

On Thu, 2005-28-04 at 12:07 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:

> You know what, I actually agree with you :) But you'll need to convince
> Dave:
> 
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/0305.3/0018.html
> 
> However, this doesn't change the fact that you may need to delete
> two policies.
> 

It certainly may be simpler to just allow no more than selector.
It reduces the value of priorities to be resolving ambiguities between
matches perhaps with overlapping areas by prefix lengths.

> > 2) index really oughta be unique across the SPD.  
> > Current behavior: I can add several new rules with the same index.
> 
> Not really.  The kernel ignores the index supplied when you're
> adding them.
> 

Whats the point of index then?

cheers,
jamal