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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	matti vaittinen ext <matti.vaittinen.ext@nsn.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: NLM_F_* flag support for route creation/changing when using netlink.
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:12:23 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9b43e0ef-21cf-4062-b998-849e9e8d6b56@tahiti.vyatta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111027.030658.1922451477684539766.davem@davemloft.net>


> From: "Vaittinen, Matti (EXT-Other - FI/Oulu)"
> <matti.vaittinen.ext@nsn.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:26:05 +0300
> 
> > 
> > Will requiring NLM_F_CREATE break lots of existing userspace
> > software?
> 
> I can almost guarenetee that since we haven't been requiring this,
> it will break almost everything.

Why not just make it a kernel warning for several releases.

Just checked, and iproute and quagga will have no problem since
they both already pass the CREATE flag.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-27  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-27  6:26 [PATCH] IPv6: NLM_F_* flag support for route creation/changing when using netlink Vaittinen, Matti (EXT-Other - FI/Oulu)
2011-10-27  7:06 ` David Miller
2011-10-27  7:12   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-10-27  7:20     ` Vaittinen, Matti (EXT-Other - FI/Oulu)

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