From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 16:35:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 16:35:37 -0400 Received: from krusty.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE ([129.217.163.1]:1037 "HELO krusty.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 16:35:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 22:13:59 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: Alan Cox Cc: Wietse Venema , kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, Matthias Andree , 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 Message-ID: <20010906221359.G13547@emma1.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Cox , Wietse Venema , kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <20010906181826.9CCECBC06C@spike.porcupine.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Outlook (Express) users: press Ctrl+F3 for the full source code of this post. begin dont_click_this_virus.exe end