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: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:23:24 +0200 Message-ID: <4845D26C.1030005@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> <4845A963.2050208@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]:54416 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753918AbYFCXX0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 19:23:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4845A963.2050208@trash.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Patrick McHardy wrote: > Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: >> >>> 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 :) I'll upgrade that to a full ACK - the predictability allows to use the new features in combination with legacy apps and avoid any trouble if done carefully. There is some small risk of new breakage, but things probably won't work as expected anyway. Thanks Krzysztof.