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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ipmr: limit MRT_TABLE identifiers
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:19:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1353896372.30446.866.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50B2C72F.9000100@asianux.com>

On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 09:34 +0800, Chen Gang wrote:

>     if "pimre%u" (or another format), will not hurt the functional features, I suggest to use it
>       since, we need try our best to not touch the OS API. 
>       ("pimreg%u" seems an internal format, not OS API Level)

Have you taken a look at user code base before suggesting such a
change ?

My patch is the safest change: Just make sure machine doesnt crash if
user ask stupid things.

No possible regression.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-26  2:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-21  9:20 [Suggestion] net/ipv4: sprintf, use "pimreg%.9u" instead of "pimreg%u" Chen Gang
2012-11-25 19:44 ` [PATCH] net: ipmr: limit MRT_TABLE identifiers Eric Dumazet
2012-11-26  1:22   ` Chen Gang
2012-11-26  1:34     ` Chen Gang
2012-11-26  2:19       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-11-26  2:30         ` Chen Gang
2012-11-26  2:55           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-11-26  3:13             ` Chen Gang
2012-11-26 22:37   ` David Miller

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