From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/16] [XFRM] netlink: Use nlmsg_parse() to parse attributes Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:58:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070822.135826.48825580.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070822145538.861270927@lsx.localdomain> <20070822145631.073291531@lsx.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: tgraf@suug.ch Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:42789 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763813AbXHVU61 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:58:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070822145631.073291531@lsx.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Thomas Graf Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:55:47 +0200 > Uses nlmsg_parse() to parse the attributes. This actually changes > behaviour as unknown attributes (type > MAXTYPE) no longer cause > an error. Instead unknown attributes will be ignored henceforth > to keep older kernels compatible with more recent userspace tools. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Applied.