From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Neutron Soutmun <neo.neutron@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipset: Backports for the nla_put_net64() API changes
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:37:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160623103744.GA10764@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160623102211.GA31272@hydrogen>
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 05:22:11PM +0700, Neutron Soutmun wrote:
> * Backports the patch "libnl: nla_put_net64():align on a 64-bit area" [1]
> by Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
>
> * Since the nla_put_net64() API has been changed, therefore, the
> ip_set_compat.h.in should provides the macro IPSET_NLA_PUT_NET64 that
> point to the nla_put_net64() with appropriate number of arguments.
>
> The build script should distinguish the API changes by detect for
> the existence of nla_put_64bit() function in include/net/netlink.h.
> This function was added in the same patches set and called by
> the nla_put_be64() that called by nla_put_net64() respectively.
What are you specifically fixing with this?
The pad attribute just makes sure that, after accessing a 64-bit
payload attribute, the follow up attribute still gets aligned to
64-bits.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-23 10:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-23 10:22 [PATCH] ipset: Backports for the nla_put_net64() API changes Neutron Soutmun
2016-06-23 10:37 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2016-06-23 11:41 ` Neutron Soutmun
2016-06-23 18:04 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-06-23 22:55 ` Neutron Soutmun
2016-07-01 14:34 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-07-01 19:19 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2016-06-28 8:23 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
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