From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Wietse Venema <wietse@porcupine.org>,
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 22:13:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010906221359.G13547@emma1.emma.line.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010906181826.9CCECBC06C@spike.porcupine.org> <E15f55T-0000Kc-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15f55T-0000Kc-00@the-village.bc.nu>
On Thu, 06 Sep 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> I think you have the metaphor wrong. The older API is a bit like the
> cavalry charging into battle at the start of world war one. It may have been
> how everyone did it but they guys with the "newfangled, really not how it
> should be done, definitely not cricket" machine guns got the last laugh
Alan, portability is an issue or Linux will lose. Admittedly, legacy
interfaces do not support all of those new features, but a rather
trivial patch of mine brings SIOCGIFNETMASK compatibility with both the
old and the new stuff, please name precisely the objections against
portability and compatibility with FreeBSD 4.x aliasing.
--
Matthias Andree
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[not found] <20010906155920.B29583@maggie.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
[not found] ` <200109061554.TAA11031@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
2001-09-06 17:48 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-06 18:06 ` kuznet
2001-09-06 18:18 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-06 18:38 ` kuznet
2001-09-06 19:45 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-06 19:59 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-06 20:20 ` jamal
2001-09-06 20:41 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-06 20:44 ` jamal
2001-09-06 21:20 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-07 6:11 ` Patrick Schaaf
2001-09-07 9:24 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-09-07 11:13 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-08 13:25 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-09-06 20:22 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-06 20:38 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-10 16:11 ` Dennis
2001-09-06 20:13 ` Matthias Andree [this message]
2001-09-10 8:05 ` David Weinehall
2001-09-10 12:26 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-10 12:53 ` David Weinehall
2001-09-10 13:52 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-10 15:18 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-10 15:12 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-10 19:36 ` kuznet
2001-09-10 20:14 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-11 15:22 ` kuznet
2001-09-11 16:39 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-10 20:40 ` Andi Kleen
2001-09-10 21:19 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-11 11:26 ` Matthias Andree
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