netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] IPV6: RFC 2011 compatibility broken

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Message-ID: <OF59F912FF.880BB50C-ON882573D7.006992FD-882573D7.0069F925@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:17:33 -0800
From:	David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
To:	Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] IPV6: RFC 2011 compatibility broken

RFC 2011 doesn't apply to IPv6, and the internal names of /proc entries
are not used by the SNMP protocol, but it is an unintentional 
incompatibility with the
previous Linux entry names, so I agree. :-)

                                        +-DLS

Acked-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>

netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org wrote on 01/21/2008 01:46:44 AM:

> [IPV6]: RFC 2011 compatibility broken
> 
> The snmp6 entry name was changed, and it broke compatibility
> to RFC 2011.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
>
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