linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Send quota messages via netlink

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Message-Id: <20070828.215445.38711684.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:54:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	jack@...e.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, balbir@...ibm.com,
	serue@...ibm.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com, containers@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Send quota messages via netlink

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:13:35 -0700

> This is it.  Normally netlink payloads are represented as a struct.  How
> come this one is built-by-hand?

He is using attributes, which is perfect and arbitrarily
extensible with zero backwards compatability concerns.

If he wants to provide a new attribute, he just adds it
without any issues.

When new attributes are added, older apps simply ignore the attributes
they don't understand.
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