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From: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
To: dlstevens@us.ibm.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: IPV6 RFC3542 compliance [PATCH]
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 15:33:59 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050607.153359.82068814.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF9F62ECDB.67FFA191-ON88257019.001F5EA8-88257019.00234AB6@us.ibm.com>

In article <OF9F62ECDB.67FFA191-ON88257019.001F5EA8-88257019.00234AB6@us.ibm.com> (at Mon, 6 Jun 2005 23:25:28 -0700), David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> says:

> And those same binaries would not work when recompiled,
> because the option names in the source would match the
> new numbers, but still have the old arguments-- an error to
> be detected at run-time, only.

It is not good at all to break API at this moment (2.6.x).

Portable applications do like this:

#ifdef IPV6_RECVHOPOPTS
   // RFC2292bis
#else
   // RFC2292
#endif

--yoshfuji

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-07  6:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-06 19:48 IPV6 RFC3542 compliance [PATCH] David Stevens
2005-06-07  5:19 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-06-07  6:25   ` David Stevens
2005-06-07  6:33     ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 [this message]
2005-06-07  6:50       ` David Stevens
2005-06-07  7:05         ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-06-07  7:40           ` David Stevens
2005-06-07  7:47             ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-06-07  7:55               ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-06-07  8:04                 ` David Stevens
2005-06-07  8:01               ` David Stevens
2005-06-07  8:14                 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-06-08 18:49                   ` David Stevens
2005-06-07  6:35     ` David Stevens

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