From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161071AbXCNUmw (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:42:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161195AbXCNUmw (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:42:52 -0400 Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:46713 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161071AbXCNUmu (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:42:50 -0400 Message-ID: <45F85E40.6050409@trash.net> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:42:40 +0100 From: Patrick McHardy User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hemminger CC: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 2.6.20-070313 References: <20070313151549.332004c9@freekitty> <200703141223.48927.arekm@maven.pl> <45F7E527.6030307@trash.net> <200703141316.05509.arekm@maven.pl> <45F7EB5C.5010901@trash.net> <20070314101443.4347efdd@freekitty> In-Reply-To: <20070314101443.4347efdd@freekitty> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:32:28 +0100 > Patrick McHardy wrote: > >>RTA_* attributes aren't used for routing rules anymore inside >>the kernel. > > > But we need to keep them in iproute2 for back compatibility? Not really for compatibility, its the numerical values that matter. iproute hasn't been changed to use the FRA_* attributes for routing rules, but it might be a good idea to do this before adding the next RTA_* attribute since RTA_FWMASK doesn't have any meaning for routes in the kernel, so the next RTA attribute we add could just use the same value instead of leaving a hole.