From: David Acker <dacker@roinet.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: expose vlan structure to user space
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:10:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44400FE3.9030507@roinet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060414.135556.91849056.davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Miller wrote:
> From: David Acker <dacker@roinet.com>
> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:15:54 -0400
>
>
>>David S. Miller wrote:
>> > I think this really belongs in a portable header file
>> > in glibc somewhere.
>>
>>David, while I can try to work with the glibc folks, I don't understand
>>how this patch would be different from what if_ether.h exposes to user
>>space today. Why is one appropriate and the other not? I am not trying
>>to be a pain; I am just trying to understand the rationale so that I can
>>explain it to others.
>
>
> Doing stupid things in the past does not equate to being a reason
> to keep doing so in the future.
>
>
Understood. I will see what I can do in glibc land instead.
-Ack
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2006-04-14 13:15 ` [PATCH] net: expose vlan structure to user space David Acker
2006-04-14 20:55 ` David S. Miller
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