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Why shouldn't the kernel provide the real MIBs information? Is it breaking any application if I make the right changes?
Thanks
Shirley Ma
IBM Linux Technology Center
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Sent by: "Hideaki YOSHIFUJI" <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Shirley Ma/Beaverton/IBM@IBMUS
cc: mashirle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, davem@xxxxxxxxxx, kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6 MIB:ipv6inetNetToMediaTable
In article <OFE052816E.2064C677-ON88256E1C.0063EDA2@xxxxxxxxxx> (at Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:18:44 -0800), Shirley Ma <xma@xxxxxxxxxx> says:
> Thanks. This is a bug fix for the update value (last change) to be a
> TimeStamp according to new IP MIBs. There is no confirm value in the new IP
> MIBs inetNetTomedia Entry, I don't know what's the confirm for, I still
> keep it, but change it to TimeStamp. Is there any application using these
> values right now? If you agree we can fix any applications reference these
> values.
ditto. application should obtain real MIB information using
information provided by kernel.
(If information is not enough, let kernel provide additional
information.)
--yoshfuji
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