Re: [PATCH] ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:36:20PM +0200, kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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