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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alexander.h.duyck@intel.com
Cc: tgraf@suug.ch, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND 2.6.27] netlink: Remove compat API for nested attributes
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:34:04 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080902.173404.87370341.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48BDD9F0.8090706@intel.com>

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:27:28 -0700

> That is the point of code like this.  It defines a standard set of
> tools for extending an existing netlink interface.  If nothing else
> we should standardize on the netem approach for both parsing and
> creation since prio no longer ueses the compat attributes.

If there are no more users, and the netem case is a specialized format
we don't want to encourage anyone to ever use in the future (and we
certainlt DON'T), we delete the interface.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-03  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-28 14:00 [PATCH 2.6.27] netlink: Remove compat API for nested attributes Thomas Graf
2008-08-28 14:05 ` [RESEND " Thomas Graf
2008-09-02 21:46   ` Alexander Duyck
2008-09-02 23:04     ` David Miller
2008-09-02 23:20     ` Thomas Graf
2008-09-03  0:27       ` Alexander Duyck
2008-09-03  0:34         ` David Miller [this message]
2008-09-03  0:30   ` David Miller

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