Re: [PATCH] add compat support for getsockopt (MCAST_MSFILTER)

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:52:20 +0900 (JST)

> In article <OF81CA6D67.1BAD70DD-ON88257439.00251005-88257439.0025FC25@us.ibm.com> (at Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:54:56 -0700), David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> says:
> 
> > YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> wrote on 04/27/2008 
> > 11:36:50 PM:
> > 
> > > IMHO, It's much better to split into 2 pathces - bug fixes and
> > > getsockopt() support...
> > 
> >         Ordinarily, I'd agree, but I came across this in the
> > getsockopt code which has the same issue and both the
> > new code and fix require the same #define that's in the
> > getsockopt code. I retested all of it before submitting, too.
> 
> That does not seem to be an excuse, and it is not a
> good practice to me.
> 
> - Several cleanups for the setsockopt compat support.
> - Add compat support for getsockopt (MCAST_MSFILTER)
> 
> Feel free to use these, sync'ed with current net-2.6.

Fair enough, I've applied these two patches.

Thanks everyone!