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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Openswan Users] Invalid argument NULL
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:17:17 +1000
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> I mean that we should keep the numbers internally.  So xfrm_user.c
> will translate the names given by existing applications into numbers
> as the patch that you've just applied does.

Ok, that works.

> We can then create a new NETLINK payload type that uses numbers if
> we wish.

I think that will just be bloat.