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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: marcel@holtmann.org, andy.grover@oracle.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RDS: Add AF and PF defines for RDS sockets
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:06:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1219907200.7107.228.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080825.212914.197506339.davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 21:29 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:16:28 +0200
> 
> > and where is the protocol? Adding new constants without posting the
> > implementation normally doesn't fly anymore.
> 
> That's correct :)

That's kind of unfortunate, and leads to the problems we have with
compatibility for AF_ISDN, where userspace built for the _older_
versions has a different value.

Is there really any harm in reserving it up-front?

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com                              Intel Corporation




  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-28  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-26  4:02 [PATCH] RDS: Add AF and PF defines for RDS sockets Andy Grover
2008-08-26  4:16 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-08-26  4:29   ` David Miller
2008-08-28  7:06     ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2008-08-28  7:24       ` David Miller
2008-09-11 18:44         ` Andrew Grover
2008-09-11 21:54           ` David Miller

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