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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ipmr: limit MRT_TABLE identifiers
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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.