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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] updates for ctnetlink and conntrack core
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:39:08 +0200
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Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> So, to keep consistency with other netlink subsystem, I can remake my
> patch based on this assumptions:
> 
> - NEW events dump everything but values that are unset like counters,
> mark, ...
> - UPDATE events dump everything but unset fields and the counters, they
> don't provide very useful information AFAICS.
> - DESTROY, dump everything, counters included.
> 
> Please let me know what you think.

That sounds good, but I don't think DESTROY needs to dump more than
NEW or UPDATE.