netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/26] IPVS: Add first IPv6 support to IPVS.

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:19:14 +0200
From:	"Julius Volz" <juliusv@...gle.com>
To:	"Patrick McHardy" <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	"Simon Horman" <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	"Vince Busam" <vbusam@...gle.com>,
	"Ben Greear" <greearb@...delatech.com>, lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/26] IPVS: Add first IPv6 support to IPVS.

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> wrote:
>> Option c) looks reasonable to me and also seems easy to handle in
>> general. Is this the way to go? Or do we want the interface to look
>> completely different this time?
>
> b) or c) both look fine.

A couple of other Netlink questions came up while reading some code:

1) There are many examples of the following two cases in the kernel:

nla_nest_start(skb, SOME_ATTR_TYPE | NLA_F_NESTED);
nla_nest_start(skb, SOME_ATTR_TYPE);

Why don't all cases have NLA_F_NESTED? Then again, this bit is never
ever read out again (at least not in the kernel), so I guess people
are just using their implicit knowledge that a specific attribute type
is always nested and never check the bit?

Btw., couldn't we change nla_nest_start() to always add NLA_F_NESTED
to the type?

2) To send an array of attributes of the same type, you just add them
serially? I was just confused at first that nla_parse() will save only
one attribute of each type (the last one) in the destination array, so
when dealing with arrays, it doesn't help. So I just iterate over the
array with nla_for_each_attr() and parse each element manually, right?

Thanks for your time!

Julius

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