From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262048AbUL1DPU (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:15:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262042AbUL1DOz (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:14:55 -0500 Received: from adsl-63-197-226-105.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([63.197.226.105]:26534 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262041AbUL1DNL (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:13:11 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 19:08:16 -0800 From: "David S. Miller" To: hadi@cyberus.ca Cc: bunk@stusta.de, alan@redhat.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] net/netlink/af_netlink.c: possible cleanups Message-Id: <20041227190816.1d166ba2.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <1103119623.1077.71.camel@jzny.localdomain> References: <20041215004604.GH23151@stusta.de> <1103119623.1077.71.camel@jzny.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0rc (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 15 Dec 2004 09:07:03 -0500 jamal wrote: > I think this should be left alone for now; what we need to do is > deprecate NETLINK_DEV incase someone is still using it. > Else we could get rid of it totaly including what Adrian is deleting > below. Any users of NETLINK_DEV? Maybe deleting the feature will get > someone whining? ;-> While I agree we should probably just kill NETLINK_DEV now and don't look back, I have applied Adrian's patch for the time being.