From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][GENETLINK] move command capabilities to flags
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 17:31:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061204163115.GR8693@postel.suug.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1165237269.3664.15.camel@localhost>
* jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca> 2006-12-04 08:01
> The savings bytes is one aspect; the other is the cleanliness.
> transfering a boolean in that many bits is a little of overkill.
> I think it is better to fix it now than later.
> I know you mentioned libnl uses it. But that is something you can change
> on your side. I dont know of any other app that uses it.
Right but if some distro is based on exactly 2.6.19 the specific libnl
parts won't work at all for a long time.
> > If you
> > really want to do it, remove the obsoleted attribute types, I don't
> > like dead bodies laying around :-)
>
> I could resend the patch getting rid of those definitions.
OK, I can live with it, I don't care for the breakage much.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-04 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-02 11:56 [RFC][GENETLINK] move command capabilities to flags jamal
2006-12-04 9:20 ` Thomas Graf
2006-12-04 13:01 ` jamal
2006-12-04 16:31 ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2006-12-04 17:48 ` jamal
2006-12-04 18:00 ` Thomas Graf
2006-12-04 21:07 ` jamal
2006-12-04 21:23 ` Thomas Graf
2006-12-05 3:32 ` David Miller
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