On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Thomas Graf wrote:

The address deletion fix is no longer needed since a better fix
has made it into iproute2. Better in terms of same hack but in
userspace so we don't confuse other netlink users.

So, does that mean that all the users are expected to always run the 
latest iproute2, so there's no need for backward-compat in the kernel?

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