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

To: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:40:02 +0200
Cc: tao@xxxxxxxxxx, matthias.andree@xxxxxx, alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, wietse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <200109101936.XAA00707@ms2.inr.ac.ru>; from kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:36:20PM +0200
References: <20010910100537.W26627@khan.acc.umu.se> <200109101936.XAA00707@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Sender: owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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

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