From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jarek Poplawski Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix routing tables with id > 255 for legacy software Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:42:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20080603184251.GC2727@ami.dom.local> References: <20080603080812.GA4514@ff.dom.local> <20080603113343.GA4714@ff.dom.local> <48453C70.1040303@trash.net> <484542B5.4070401@trash.net> <20080603174941.GA2727@ami.dom.local> <48458652.7020309@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Patrick McHardy , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Krzysztof Oledzki Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.190]:21496 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754327AbYFCSnC (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:43:02 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d3so648496nfc.21 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:43:00 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 08:29:49PM +0200, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> Jarek Poplawski wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 05:15:04PM +0200, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Patrick McHardy wrote: >>> ... >>> IMHO, adding a safety with e.g. CONFIG_IP_FIB_COMPAT_DEPRECATED >>> (default N) for one stable, letting to change this back in some >>> (probably nonexistent) strange cases, should be enough to keep up >>> appearances... >> >> >> Mhh .. I don't think this is a good solution. > > I second that. If you know that you need this option then you don't need > it as you may avoid selected tables. This is only for those (nonexistent, I hope) who would report a regression to the list or bugzilla ("my scripts are broken") to let them fix this easy way, or maybe for even fewer ones, who read config options and would be alarmed with this "DEPRECATED" word. Jarek P.