netdev - Re: Iproute2 build broken by current kernel headers

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Message-ID: <4F0DD4A7.1080204@parallels.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:27:51 +0400
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Iproute2 build broken by current kernel headers

> These patches will have to be redone to work with the revised include
> files. The iproute2 changes are not acceptable as is because they do not support
> older kernels.
> 
> It is critical that the resulting code work on both old and new
> kernels. In other words, when the new ss command is built (using your
> patches and 3.3 headers), it:
>  * SHOULD send new diag requests to kernel and be able to display
>    the new UNIX domain info
>  * MUST still work when run against old 3.2 kernel.
> 
> This means the code should send new request first, and if that generates
> an error fallback (silently) to the old message format.

OK, I will rework the patches in this way.

Thanks,
Pavel
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