From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
pablo@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Netlink limitations
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:27:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD91406.4000603@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101108151635.GA20629@canuck.infradead.org>
Am 08.11.2010 16:16, schrieb Thomas Graf:
> On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 06:17:43PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> On 07.11.2010 17:44, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> ...
>
>> That's somewhat similar to the nlattr32 idea, but a length of 0 makes
>> more sense since that's currently not used. In that case the length
>> would be read from a second length field which has 32 bits.
>
> I agree. This makes perfect sense. I was just thinking wheter we want
> to encode more information into the attribute header if we extend it
> anyways.
What kind of additional information are you thinking about?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-09 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-07 16:44 Netlink limitations Jan Engelhardt
2010-11-07 17:17 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-11-08 15:16 ` Thomas Graf
2010-11-08 19:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-11-08 23:36 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2010-11-09 9:27 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2010-11-09 14:49 ` Thomas Graf
2010-11-09 20:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-11-09 21:40 ` Thomas Graf
2010-11-09 22:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-11-09 23:35 ` Thomas Graf
2010-11-09 23:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-11-09 23:54 ` Thomas Graf
2010-11-09 11:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-11-09 12:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-11-09 12:24 ` Patrick McHardy
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