netdev - Re: netlink regression (since 2.6.18)

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Date:	Thu, 8 Mar 2007 13:28:18 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netlink regression (since 2.6.18)

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 14:28:30 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On a Ubuntu x86_64 machine the command: 
>   tc qdisc ls
> gets a RTNETLINK error. It looks like some data structure alignment
> issue got introduced between 2.6.18 and 2.6.19-rc1 and continues on. 
> Since netlink data structure layout is part of the user ABI, we need to go back
> and keep compatibility.
> 
> Still working out the bisect to find where the problem started.

Never mind, it turned out that NET_SCHED wasn't configured on that machine.

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
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