From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: jmorris@redhat.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] moving the test for sockaddr->sa_family up
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:44:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031117124443.7590c1d4.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031116190757.GA18416@conectiva.com.br>
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:07:58 -0200
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> Em Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:56:04AM -0500, James Morris escreveu:
> > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> >
> > > Does anybody see any problem with this simplification? Not for 2.6.0, of
> > > course...
> >
> > No, looks like a good idea. Might be able to push address length
> > verification up there too.
>
> Not really, look at the ax25 code... :-\ They have to support two address types,
> if we want to keep this flexibility we can't check it at the upper layer,
> does anybody here knows if we want or if we can ditch that thing in ax25? this:
Right, this is the area where you need to be careful, where people
need special semantics just like this ax25 case.
I'm %100 fine with the original cleanup for 2.6.1 or later.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-17 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-15 21:20 [RFC] moving the test for sockaddr->sa_family up Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-11-16 13:56 ` James Morris
2003-11-16 19:07 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-11-17 20:44 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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