Re: [INET] Add flags field to ip_tunnel_parm

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 07:28:43AM +1000, herbert wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:52:05PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ 
> wrote:
> > 
> > Kernel will get garbage from old binaries,
> > and kernel will break user space if it tries 
> > to get params into old structure.
> 
> The only application that I know of does a memset on the structure
> so it'll be fine.  Are you aware of any user-space applications that
> initialises every field explicitly instead of using memset?

Never mind, I see what you mean now.

I suppose change the ioctl names/numbers is the easiest way now.
I'd love to use netlink but that seems to require a lot of
infrastructure which isn't there currently.
 
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