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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:11:58 +0100 From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com> To: jamal <hadi@...erus.ca> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, pablo@...filter.org, arthur.marsh@...ernode.on.net, jengelh@...ozas.de, eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: inbound connection problems when "netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP composite" commit applied On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:05:03AM -0500, jamal wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 10:24 +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > > > Do you all expect all users manage to upgrade avahi app before > > changing their stable kernel? I mean "own distro" users especially. > > Unfortunately if that app is widely deployed, it is not pragmatic > to break it in the name of pedanticity. i.e. > Be conservative in what you send (clearly Avahi is farting all over the > place) but more importantly be a nice liberal in what you accept. > Maybe tell them if you have the cycles about their bad behavior. > The important part is the GET (kind = 2). The DUMP as Jarek says > is merely a utility to extrapolate that we need you to > get everything.. So it is not such a big deal if someone passes > extraneous senseless flags. Wrong? yes. Thanks for the confirmation of my suspicions wrt. the RFC & rtnetlink. But then Avahi seems right and we should get back to the written law. > Jarek - For the record although i coauthored the doc, I was merely > a messenger in putting together some artist painting. Well, ain't pictures better than words ;-) Cheers, Jarek P. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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