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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>,
	Netfilter Development Mailinglist
	<netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org>,
	Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] updates for [nf|ct]netlink and event API
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:27:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42C3F35B.50805@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050630120302.GI16076@postel.suug.ch>

Thomas Graf wrote:
> Good point, after all, I think structs have been used too often
> and we now suffer from backwards compatbility issues. The
> points likely to be argueable are things like trim responsibility
> in the error handling, i.e. delegate it down to the function
> which also created the header or trim on every level. Other than
> that the whole thing should be pretty straight forward.

I think for nested attributes error handling should happen on the
outer level. Just trimming on the inner level would leave a
half-finished nested attribute.

> What do you think about naming it nlattr?

Sounds good.

Regards
Patrick

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-30 13:27 UTC|newest]

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2005-06-30 12:03                   ` [PATCH 1/2] updates for [nf|ct]netlink and event API Thomas Graf
2005-06-30 13:27                     ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2005-06-30 18:02                       ` Thomas Graf
2005-06-30 21:26                         ` Patrick McHardy
2005-06-30 21:34                           ` Thomas Graf
2005-06-30 21:49                             ` David S. Miller
2005-06-30 22:08                               ` Thomas Graf
2005-06-30 22:08                                 ` David S. Miller

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