netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] IPROUTE: generate compat messages that match nla_parse_nested

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Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:02:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tgraf@...g.ch
Cc:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, jeff@...zik.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, alexander.h.duyck@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] IPROUTE: generate compat messages that match
 nla_parse_nested_compat

From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:59:48 +0200

> * David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> 2008-08-28 02:55
> > He's doing the bogus iproute2 alternative to curing the regression
> > in PRIO and RR that was added to 2.6.26 and 2.6.25.7
> > 
> > That's what this is for.
> > 
> > But see my other email, we'll likely fix this in the kernel.
> 
> The prio scheduler also no longer parses nested attributes, you have
> removed that piece of code when you removed RR. There is nothing to
> fix really.  multiq is currently the only "real" user of
> addattr_nest_compat().

2.6.26 and 2.6.25.7 still have the prio and RR scheduler multiqueue
parts, and we broke them.

See my other reply in the other thread where this discussion
was taking place.
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