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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-netlink: Add a new attribute to expose TCLASS
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Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 16:27:04 -0800
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On Mon,  7 Nov 2011 16:23:11 -0800
Maciej =C5=BBenczykowski <zenczykowski@gmail.com> wrote:

> commit 3ceca749668a52bd795585e0f71c6f0b04814f7b added a TOS attribute=
=2E
>=20
> Unfortunately TOS and TCLASS are both present in a dual-stack v6 sock=
et,
> furthermore they can have different values.  As such one cannot in a
> sane way expose both through a single attribute.

Do we really want to continue to expose that as a supported
API. I would argue it was a mistake in the original implementation.