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 16:39:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 16:39:43 -0400 Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:39692 "HELO colin.muc.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 16:39:21 -0400 Message-ID: <20010910224002.31693@colin.muc.de> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:40:02 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Cc: tao@acc.umu.se, matthias.andree@gmx.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, wietse@porcupine.org, 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 In-Reply-To: <20010910100537.W26627@khan.acc.umu.se> <200109101936.XAA00707@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <200109101936.XAA00707@ms2.inr.ac.ru>; from kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:36:20PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:36:20PM +0200, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > And I see no reasons to refuse this: it evidently improves the things > almost without efforts. Doubtful. > No matter that this imporvement is not so useful, > as it would happen if I guessed this way from the very beginning. That's a polite way to express it. > So that applications will have to worry about compatibility with older > kernels in any case. Just hope then that no ifconfig or other binary has a two on the stack when calling this. -Andi