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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Netlink limitations
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 18:35:50 -0500
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On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 11:02:30PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 2010-11-09 22:40, Thomas Graf wrote:
> >The addition won't be a revolution but it the increased header size,
> >8 vs. 12 bytes isn't a big deal and gives us some additional room to
> >work with in the future.
> >
> >struct nlattr_ext {
> >	u16	oldlen;		/* 0 */
> >	u16	kind;		/* TCA_* */
> >	u8	type;		/* NLA_U32 */
> >	u8	flags;		/* NLA_F_* */
> >	u16	reserved;
> >	u32	length;
> >};
> 
> And while we're discussing this, surely there are no objections
> to bumping NLA_ALIGN to 8 at the same time..

We can't do that. That would break _everything_.