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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
To: Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail•com>
Cc: xemul@parallels•com, NetDev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ss: fix the incorrect value of total UNIX_DIAG_* number
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:26:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120425092645.180ac196@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F97A484.2040300@gmail.com>

On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:15:16 +0800
Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail•com> wrote:

> From: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent•com>
> 
> UNIX_DIAG_MAX is included in enum type.
> It is equal to the total number of enum element.
> 
> But lots of enum MAX value is defined as the max enum element, e.g. INET_DIAG_MAX, XFRMA_MAX. 
> The right fixing way seems to define UNIX_DIAG_MAX as UNIX_DIAG_MEMINFO,
> but this way will break other user application.
> 
> So, just fix it on user application.

Nak, we should fix this in the kernel. It is ridiculous to have
a convention that is true for one route attribute type but not
for all of them.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-25 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-25  7:15 [PATCH 1/2] ss: fix the incorrect value of total UNIX_DIAG_* number Shan Wei
2012-04-25 16:26 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-04-25 17:38   ` [PATCH] unix_diag: use netlink attribute MAX convention Stephen Hemminger
2012-04-25 18:16     ` David Miller
2012-04-25 18:56       ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-04-25 19:07         ` David Miller
2012-04-25 19:47           ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-04-25 19:57             ` David Miller
2012-04-25 20:09               ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-04-25 20:12                 ` David Miller
2012-04-25 20:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] ss: fix the incorrect value of total UNIX_DIAG_* number Stephen Hemminger

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