From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: jack@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, balbir@in.ibm.com,
serue@us.ibm.com, ebiederm@xmission.com,
containers@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Send quota messages via netlink
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:54:45 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070828.215445.38711684.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070828211335.37fce4c9.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:13:35 -0700
> This is it. Normally netlink payloads are represented as a struct. How
> come this one is built-by-hand?
He is using attributes, which is perfect and arbitrarily
extensible with zero backwards compatability concerns.
If he wants to provide a new attribute, he just adds it
without any issues.
When new attributes are added, older apps simply ignore the attributes
they don't understand.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-29 4:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-28 14:13 [PATCH] Send quota messages via netlink Jan Kara
2007-08-29 4:13 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-29 4:54 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-08-29 5:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <20070828211335.37fce4c9.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2007-08-29 6:30 ` Balbir Singh
2007-08-29 6:30 ` Balbir Singh
2007-08-29 12:46 ` Jan Kara
2007-08-31 6:59 ` Balbir Singh
2007-09-03 10:18 ` Jan Kara
2007-08-29 12:26 ` Jan Kara
2007-08-29 15:57 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-29 18:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <m1mywa42g7.fsf-T1Yj925okcoyDheHMi7gv2pdwda3JcWeAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2007-08-29 19:26 ` Jan Kara
2007-08-29 19:26 ` Jan Kara
2007-08-29 21:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-29 21:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-08-29 21:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-08-30 9:25 ` Jan Kara
2007-08-30 17:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-30 18:54 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-08-30 19:18 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-08-30 19:10 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-08-30 22:18 ` Jan Kara
2007-08-30 22:14 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-03 14:21 ` Jan Kara
2007-09-04 21:32 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-04 22:49 ` Jan Kara
2007-09-04 23:48 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-05 13:32 ` Jan Kara
2007-09-05 14:28 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-08-29 4:51 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-29 10:03 ` Jan Kara
2007-09-03 14:43 ` Jan Kara
2007-09-03 17:12 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-03 17:48 ` Jan Kara
2007-09-03 18:41 ` Andrew Morton
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