From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fixing SA/SP dumps on netlink/af_key Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:39:40 -0500 Message-ID: <1200533980.4451.100.camel@localhost> References: Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: timo.teras@iki.fi, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Herbert Xu Return-path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.183]:1899 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752092AbYAQBjq (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:39:46 -0500 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u52so680408pyb.10 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:39:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2008-17-01 at 09:58 +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > IMHO doing significant work on af_key is a waste of time. It has no > advantages at all over xfrm_user since neither is portable. So we > should discourage people from using af_key wherever possible. I wouldnt disagree except some apps like racoon which depend on pfkey are unfortunately beyond repair. Timo has a pretty good handle on the issue from what i have seen so far, so it pretty much seems to be there without significant changes (if the two issues are separated). cheers, jamal