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, 10 Sep 2001 15:37:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:37:00 -0400 Received: from minus.inr.ac.ru ([193.233.7.97]:58373 "HELO ms2.inr.ac.ru") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:36:49 -0400 From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Message-Id: <200109101936.XAA00707@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19 To: tao@acc.umu.se, matthias.andree@gmx.de Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 23:36:20 +0400 (MSK DST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, wietse@porcupine.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <20010910100537.W26627@khan.acc.umu.se> from "David Weinehall" at Sep 10, 1 10:05:37 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! > a bad idea after all. Whining about this causing "bloat and maintainance Listen, let's close this thread. :-) The patch sent by Matthias is enough small not to speak about some bloat. And I see no reasons to refuse this: it evidently improves the things almost without efforts. No matter that this imporvement is not so useful, as it would happen if I guessed this way from the very beginning. So that applications will have to worry about compatibility with older kernels in any case. (BTW Matthias, while applying it to my tree, I noticed that it does not check for SIOGGIFNETMASK. It would be better to do this only when it is meaningful: I see only SIOGGIFNETMASK and SIOGGIFBROADCAST). Alexey