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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: shanwei88@gmail•com, xemul@parallels•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] unix_diag: use netlink attribute MAX convention
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:56:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120425115609.4ef9ece0@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120425.141658.1934757959636497552.davem@davemloft.net>

On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:16:58 -0400 (EDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft•net> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:38:58 -0700
> 
> > Use the standard convention to define the number of elements
> > in unix diag attribute. This fixes future problems like the fact
> > the last element (MEMINFO) is not parsed by current iproute2 ss command.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
> 
> You can't change this, it's already out in the wild, and
> for 2 releases.
> 
> Sorry.
> 
> Just accept the 'ss' patch that was posted and you objected to,
> I'm not breaking userspace just so that you don't have to apply
> a userland patch you perceive as an unacceptable quirk.

It only changes a broken enum value used only by iproute2.
Do you expect the one utility to use it to have a workaround for
a broken initial version.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-25 18:56 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
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 [this message]
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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