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From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Subject: Re: [rfc 09/13] [RFC 09/13] IPVS: Add persistence engine data to
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Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:45:03 +0900
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On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 02:46:22PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 2010-08-05 13:48, Simon Horman wrote:
> 
> >This shouldn't break compatibility with userspace as the new data
> >is at the end of the line.
> >
> >I have confirmed that this doesn't break ipvsadm, the main (only?)
> >user-space user of this data.
> 
> Wouldn't it be best if this be done over Netlink?

I'm happy to add code to do that over netlink,
though it does seem to be overkill to me.