linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 2.6.20-070313

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Message-ID: <20070314101443.4347efdd@freekitty>
Date:	Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:14:43 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@...en.pl>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lartc@...lman.ds9a.nl
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 2.6.20-070313

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:32:28 +0100
Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> wrote:

> Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > Hm, why no RTA_FWMASK in HEAD rtnetlink.h
> > 
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=include/linux/rtnetlink.h;h=4a629ea70cc4ca60a6f486f8653974af68dbe8cd;hb=HEAD
> > 
> > and 2.6.19
> > 
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=include/linux/rtnetlink.h;h=3a18addaed4ccb7436bffc9cf5fd0666f145d35c;hb=0215ffb08ce99e2bb59eca114a99499a4d06e704
> > 
> > ?
> 
> Its in include/linux/fib_rules.h:
> 
> enum
> {
> ...
>         FRA_FWMASK,     /* mask for netfilter mark */
> 
>         __FRA_MAX
> };
> 
> RTA_* attributes aren't used for routing rules anymore inside
> the kernel.

But we need to keep them in iproute2 for back compatibility?

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