netdev - Re: [RFC] netlink broadcast return value

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Date:	Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:05:33 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	pablo@...filter.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] netlink broadcast return value

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:33:57 +0100

> In short, I think that the change that I'm proposing would also require
> to fix some netlink_broadcast() clients to skip ENOBUFS errors: they are
> not meaningful for them since they assume that Netlink is unreliable and
> so the return value does not provide any useful information.

I think this analysis is accurate.

Please proceed to do the netlink_broadcast() client changes
and then submit those with this patch and I'll queue it all
up for net-next-2.6

Thanks!
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