netdev - Re: [NETLINK]: Restore API compatibility of address and neighbour bits

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Message-Id: <20061208.133334.55725556.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:33:34 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	stefan@...lof.de
Cc:	tgraf@...g.ch, dwmw2@...radead.org, joseph@...esourcery.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, libc-alpha@...rceware.org, akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: [NETLINK]: Restore API compatibility of address and neighbour
 bits

From: Stefan Rompf <stefan@...lof.de>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:25:18 +0100 (MET)

> The _RTA and _PAYLOAD-macros are also part of userspace headers and need to be
> restored. Both dhcpclient and quagga need at least IFA_RTA and IFLA_RTA to
> compile, but there may be more macros than in the following patch. You may want
> to look at keepalived, iproute, ...

Those are not coming back, sorry.  They are really broken
and usage is extremely discouraged.

iproute got fixed, dhcpclient and friends should get fixed to not use
them either

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