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

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Message-Id: <20080902.173404.87370341.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:34:04 -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 17:27:28 -0700

> That is the point of code like this.  It defines a standard set of
> tools for extending an existing netlink interface.  If nothing else
> we should standardize on the netem approach for both parsing and
> creation since prio no longer ueses the compat attributes.

If there are no more users, and the netem case is a specialized format
we don't want to encourage anyone to ever use in the future (and we
certainlt DON'T), we delete the interface.
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