Re: [PATCH 1/2] updates for [nf|ct]netlink and event API

[Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>]

* Patrick McHardy <42C3F35B.50805@trash.net> 2005-06-30 15:27
> Thomas Graf wrote:
> > Good point, after all, I think structs have been used too often
> > and we now suffer from backwards compatbility issues. The
> > points likely to be argueable are things like trim responsibility
> > in the error handling, i.e. delegate it down to the function
> > which also created the header or trim on every level. Other than
> > that the whole thing should be pretty straight forward.
> 
> I think for nested attributes error handling should happen on the
> outer level. Just trimming on the inner level would leave a
> half-finished nested attribute.

I can agree with this, the question that remains is: do we want
to trim in functions where no nesting is done at all? i.e. things
like the generic network statistics dumping interface.