On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 00:29, David S. Miller wrote:

On 30 Aug 2004 22:37:03 -0400
jamal [off-list ref] wrote:

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thmart. Lets go with this then. Steve, do you wanna take it from here
with the iproute2 patch i sent or you want me to generate a new one? Now
how do we tell all other people who have written netlink apps
to beware?

Yeah, how are you going to "tell those other people"?  And how
are you going to get every user to know to upgrade all of those
apps when they try to use a kernel with your patch applied?

Again, thats not an issue. new kernel. old app should work
Challenge is old kernel, new app.

Look, let's get real about this topic.  We can't be breaking shit
like this all the time.  We're nearly letting it happen a lot
lately.

Agreed.

These data structures are user visible APIs, they are just like
system call data structures, and if we cannot modify
them without potentially breaking some existing application we
cannot make that change.

So please find another way to add make this statistic visible to
userspace Jamal.  Thanks a lot.

Well, Franks A Lot(TM) Dave ;->
Let me rethink - I will be back.

cheers,
jamal