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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:06:40 +0200

> Herbert Xu wrote:
> > If we can ensure that all netlink backends use the helpers that
> > copy, even for structures then it should definitely work.
> 
> Yes, that should always work.

It should work on the kernel side, the user side is still broken
and I can show you the hacks in libnl to prove it :-)