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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:05:03 -0500

> On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 10:24 +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> 
>> Do you all expect all users manage to upgrade avahi app before
>> changing their stable kernel? I mean "own distro" users especially.
> 
> Unfortunately if that app is widely deployed, it is not pragmatic
> to break it in the name of pedanticity. i.e.
> Be conservative in what you send (clearly Avahi is farting all over the
> place) but more importantly be a nice liberal in what you accept.
> Maybe tell them if you have the cycles about their bad behavior.
> The important part is the GET (kind = 2). The DUMP as Jarek says
> is merely a utility to extrapolate that we need you to
> get everything.. So it is not such a big deal if someone passes
> extraneous senseless flags. Wrong? yes.

Fair enough, I'll revert the netlink patch.