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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:30:42 +0800

> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 05:14:50PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> >
> > I'd prefer that as well. The only reason to do this is to save a few
> > bytes and cycles for attribute encapsulation. I don't think this
> > matters at all, judging by the fact that I've never seen a userspace
> > implementation using message batching, the current users don't seem
> > to care about performance *that* much.
> 
> OK, let's all just keep an eye out for new struct users and see
> how it goes.

It might be about time to start working on netlink-2 seriously.
:-)

We can start treating it like a real protocol, firmly define
the endianness of everything to kill all the over-the-wire
issues, etc. and deal with this 4-byte-align stuff as well.