From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Vince Busam <vbusam@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/26] IPVS: Add first IPv6 support to IPVS.
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:26:06 -0700
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Cc: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>, lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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Ben Greear wrote:
> You can have the kernel ignore any data it doesn't understand (ie, if 
> struct is 24 bytes,
> but the kernel expects 20 bytes, just ignore the last 4).  This way it 
> should
> work with newer binaries.

Currently, the IPVS code specifically checks that length, so all kernels 
up to now won't play well with any changes to the structs.

Vince