Re: [PATCH 1/2] updates for [nf|ct]netlink and event API

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Thomas Graf wrote:
> Good point, after all, I think structs have been used too often
> and we now suffer from backwards compatbility issues. The
> points likely to be argueable are things like trim responsibility
> in the error handling, i.e. delegate it down to the function
> which also created the header or trim on every level. Other than
> that the whole thing should be pretty straight forward.

I think for nested attributes error handling should happen on the
outer level. Just trimming on the inner level would leave a
half-finished nested attribute.

> What do you think about naming it nlattr?

Sounds good.

Regards
Patrick