netdev - Re: [RESEND 2.6.27] netlink: Remove compat API for nested attributes

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Message-Id: <20080902.160403.83966810.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:04:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com
Cc:	tgraf@...g.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND 2.6.27] netlink: Remove compat API for nested
 attributes

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:46:28 -0700

> Thomas Graf wrote:
> > Removes all _nested_compat() functions from the API. The prio qdisc
> > no longer requires them and netem has its own format anyway. Their
> > existance is only confusing.
> > Resend: Also remove the wrapper macro.
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
> > 
> I don't think we need to do anything as drastic as completely throwing out this part of the Kernel ABI.  This is what I have been trying to get at all along.  All we need to do is revert the two patches that we talked about earlier and everything goes back to working.

He's removing it because in 2.6.27 and later, besides netem, there are no
other users.  And we don't want to encourage new uses of this thing.

And all of that, I agree with.
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