From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:23:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:23:07 -0400 Received: from minus.inr.ac.ru ([193.233.7.97]:63247 "HELO ms2.inr.ac.ru") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:22:53 -0400 From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Message-Id: <200109111522.TAA16406@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19 To: matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de (Matthias Andree) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 19:22:57 +0400 (MSK DST) Cc: 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 In-Reply-To: <20010910221448.E30149@emma1.emma.line.org> from "Matthias Andree" at Sep 10, 1 10:14:48 pm 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! > Let's keep this as simple as possible. A. No way to do the trick with SIOCSIF*. B. The things does not become simpler when code does something random. The things become simpler when code checks something explicitly, otherwise you have to add comment: "Well, here we do this against plain logic, but this does not matter because of this, this and this." Alexey