netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/26] IPVS: Add first IPv6 support to IPVS.

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:01:02 +0200
From:	"Julius Volz" <juliusv@...gle.com>
To:	"Patrick McHardy" <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	"Simon Horman" <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	"Vince Busam" <vbusam@...gle.com>,
	"Ben Greear" <greearb@...delatech.com>, lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/26] IPVS: Add first IPv6 support to IPVS.

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> b) or c) both look fine. You could save a few operations (ADD/EDIT
> can be combined) by making use of nlmsg_flags though:
>
> The semantics of the flags is:
>
> - NLM_F_CREATE|NLM_F_EXCL: create if non-existant
> - NLM_F_REPLACE: change existing
> - NLM_F_CREATE|NLM_F_REPLACE: create if non-existing, replace otherwise
> - NLM_F_EXCL: test existance

I just noticed that this doesn't work with genetlink. genl_rcv_msg()
treats all commands as GET requests instead of NEW requests, in which
the same flag bits mean different things (NLM_F_ROOT, NLM_F_MATCH and
so on). Specifically, it checks for NLM_F_DUMP, which overlaps with
the other interpretations of the bits.

So I think I'll just have separate commands for ADD and EDIT, similar
to what net/wireless/nl80211.c has.

Julius

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