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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] Get rid of attribute parsing in
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg()
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:19:01 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:45:27 +0100

> We have been wanting to get rid of rta_buf for a while. It is error
> prone as it requires subsystems, especially modules, that register a
> rtnetlink mesage type to also modify rtnetlink.c and thus require
> the recompilation of the kernel. DECnet is the only user left so after
> converting it we can safely remove it
> 
> Thomas Graf (2):
>   decnet: Parse netlink attributes on our own
>   rtnetlink: Remove passing of attributes into rtnl_doit functions

Looks great.

I'll apply this once at least some basic sanity test has been done
on the decnet bits.

Thanks.