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Re: [Openswan Users] Invalid argument NULL

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Openswan Users] Invalid argument NULL
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:17:17 +1000
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On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 06:03:50PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:41:41 +1000
> Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > So maybe we should keep the numbers?
> 
> If we take out the names, won't this break xfrm_user apps
> that currently can receive them?

I mean that we should keep the numbers internally.  So xfrm_user.c
will translate the names given by existing applications into numbers
as the patch that you've just applied does.

We can then create a new NETLINK payload type that uses numbers if
we wish.

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