From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 00:32:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 00:32:32 -0500 Received: from Cantor.suse.de ([194.112.123.193]:35598 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 00:32:18 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 06:32:14 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: "David S. Miller" Cc: cw@f00f.org, david@linux.com, greearb@candelatech.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!) Message-ID: <20010108063214.A29026@gruyere.muc.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20010107162905.B1804@metastasis.f00f.org> <20010108011308.A2575@metastasis.f00f.org> <200101071201.EAA01790@pizda.ninka.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101071201.EAA01790@pizda.ninka.net>; from davem@redhat.com on Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 04:01:04AM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 04:01:04AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:13:08 +1300 > From: Chris Wedgwood > > OK, I'm a liar -- bind does handle this. Cool. > > Standard BSD allows it, what do you expect :-) > > This is good news, because it means there is a precedent for multiple > addresses on a single interface so we can kill the : > syntax in favor of the above which is cleaner of more accurately > represents what is happening. > > If this is really true, 2.5.x is an appropriate time to make > this, no sooner. I think it would be better to keep it. The ifa based alias interface emulation adds minor overhead (currently it's only a few lines of code, assuming we need named if addresses for other reasons too, which we do) and removing it it would break a lot of configuration scripts etc., for no really good gain. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/