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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  Fix routing tables with id > 255 for legacy software
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:28:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48458D59.5030101@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806031617310.3438@bizon.gios.gov.pl>

Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>> I think the proper solution is what I wrote in the changelog
>> entry: fix userspace applications when using extended table
>> IDs.
> 
> It is unquestionably true, however it may take some time and people may 
> still use old version of such applications for whatsoever reasons.
> 
>> Your patch makes it more predictable, so I'm not completely
>> opposed, but still its just a workaround.
> 
> Indeed - it is a workaround but I believe we need it.

I'm neither opposed (as long as we don't add CONFIG options for
this) nor in favour - people using fixed applications won't notice,
and for other people it substitutes undesired behaviour by more
predictable undesirable behaviour, which is at least no loss :)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-03 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-02 22:09 [PATCH] Fix routing tables with id > 255 for legacy software Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-06-03  8:08 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-06-03 10:37   ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-06-03 11:33     ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-06-03 11:47       ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-06-03 12:43       ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-03 13:03         ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-06-03 13:10           ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-03 15:15             ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-06-03 17:49               ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-06-03 17:58                 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-03 18:29                   ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-06-03 18:29                   ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-06-03 18:42                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-06-03 18:28               ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-06-03 18:39                 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-06-03 20:28                   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-03 23:23                     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-10 22:45                       ` David Miller

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