netdev - Re: Netlink limitations

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Message-ID: <4CD91406.4000603@trash.net>
Date:	Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:27:34 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, pablo@...filter.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Netlink limitations

Am 08.11.2010 16:16, schrieb Thomas Graf:
> On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 06:17:43PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> On 07.11.2010 17:44, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> ...
> 
>> That's somewhat similar to the nlattr32 idea, but a length of 0 makes
>> more sense since that's currently not used. In that case the length
>> would be read from a second length field which has 32 bits.
> 
> I agree. This makes perfect sense. I was just thinking wheter we want
> to encode more information into the attribute header if we extend it
> anyways.

What kind of additional information are you thinking about?
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