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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/9] netlink: strict attribute checking
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From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:49:51 +0200

> On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 00:07:12 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>> Do you plan to update rfc3549, too? :}
> 
> No.
> 
> While I think we need to have a detailed documentation on netlink,
> I believe it should reside in Documentation/ inside the kernel tree to
> be easily updated, not in an outside document collection with much more
> heavyweight processes around getting something updated.

I think his point is that you'll be making changes to an RFC specified
protocol.

But I think we need a better solution to this.