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 22:28:19 +0200 Message-ID: <4845A963.2050208@trash.net> References: <20080603080812.GA4514@ff.dom.local> <20080603113343.GA4714@ff.dom.local> <48453C70.1040303@trash.net> <484542B5.4070401@trash.net> <48458D59.5030101@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, Jarek Poplawski , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Krzysztof Oledzki Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:50834 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750905AbYFCU2X (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:28:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> 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, > > Exactly, > >> which is at least no loss :) > > OK, so I assume it is a very weak ack-by? ;) Its a Not-NACKed-by: Patrick McHardy :)