From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels•com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Iproute2 build broken by current kernel headers
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:27:51 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0DD4A7.1080204@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120111102400.178baee6@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
> These patches will have to be redone to work with the revised include
> files. The iproute2 changes are not acceptable as is because they do not support
> older kernels.
>
> It is critical that the resulting code work on both old and new
> kernels. In other words, when the new ss command is built (using your
> patches and 3.3 headers), it:
> * SHOULD send new diag requests to kernel and be able to display
> the new UNIX domain info
> * MUST still work when run against old 3.2 kernel.
>
> This means the code should send new request first, and if that generates
> an error fallback (silently) to the old message format.
OK, I will rework the patches in this way.
Thanks,
Pavel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-11 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-10 18:54 Iproute2 build broken by current kernel headers Stephen Hemminger
2012-01-10 19:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-01-11 6:34 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-01-11 6:39 ` David Miller
2012-01-11 6:58 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-01-11 7:03 ` David Miller
2012-01-11 18:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-01-11 18:27 ` Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
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