netdev - Re: inbound connection problems when "netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F

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Message-ID: <1295456377.2184.2.camel@mojatatu>
Date:	Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:59:37 -0500
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Cc:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	arthur.marsh@...ernode.on.net, jengelh@...ozas.de,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inbound connection problems when "netlink: test for all flags
 of the NLM_F_DUMP composite" commit applied

On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 17:54 +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 09:28:06AM -0500, jamal wrote:

> > So here is what i think the criteria should be:
> > 
> > If Avahi is popular and widely deployed (I dont use it anywhere), it
> > makes no sense to revert. 
> > A middle ground is: instead of rejecting the nonsense passed, maybe a
> > sane thing to do is a kernel warning for a period of time (sort of like
> > feature removal warnings).
> 
> I still don't understand why you call this the nonsense. 


gah! I already had plenty of caffeine when i typed that.
I meant to say "If Avahi is popular and widely deployed,
it makes sense to revert"

> There are
> two dump flags NLM_F_ROOT and NLM_F_MATCH plus for convenience
> NLM_F_DUMP as 2 in 1. Avahi uses these specific flags. Why would
> anybody have added these specific flags if they can never be used
> separately?
> 
> Aside from this question, if we still think it's the nonsense, a
> warning would be nicer.

That is what i was suggesting as well..

cheers,
jamal

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