netdev - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fixing SA/SP dumps on netlink/af

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Message-Id: <E1JFHDM-00010A-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:58:32 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
Cc:	timo.teras@....fi, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fixing SA/SP dumps on netlink/af_key

jamal <hadi@...erus.ca> wrote:
>
> There are two issues that are inter-mingled in there. The most important
> is pf_key not being robust on dump. The other being the accurracy of

IMHO doing significant work on af_key is a waste of time.  It has no
advantages at all over xfrm_user since neither is portable.  So we
should discourage people from using af_key wherever possible.

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