Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>>Harald Welte wrote:
>>
>>
>>>No, I oppose any kind of kernel version number checking.  I'd rather
>>>break 2.6.14 with new versions of the userspace.
>>>
>>
>>The stable tree has a couple of patches pending, so I guess there
>>will be another release. I'll ask them if they would take a patch
>>to fix this issue.
> 
> 
> Any update on this?

I've added this patch to my queue. It doesn't even affect compatiblity,
userspace can send both u_int8_t or u_int16_t, the binary representation
will look the same. Changing the library will however break
compatibility with old kernels, I'll try to push this patch to -stable
as well.