From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix routing tables with id > 255 for legacy software Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:28:41 +0200 Message-ID: <48458D59.5030101@trash.net> References: <20080603080812.GA4514@ff.dom.local> <20080603113343.GA4714@ff.dom.local> <48453C70.1040303@trash.net> <484542B5.4070401@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jarek Poplawski , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Krzysztof Oledzki Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:48079 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752599AbYFCS2o (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:28:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 :)