netdev - Re: [PATCH 7/7] netlink: Get rid of obsolete rtnetlink macros

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Message-ID: <20120627153145.1379a30b@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
Date:	Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:31:45 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	tgraf@...g.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] netlink: Get rid of obsolete rtnetlink macros

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:04:35 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:35:32 -0700
> 
> > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:36:16 +0200
> > Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> wrote:
> > 
> >> Removes all RTA_GET*() and RTA_PUT*() variations, as well as the
> >> the unused rtattr_strcmp(). Get rid of rtm_get_table() by moving
> >> it to its only user decnet.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
> >> ---
> > 
> > Nack. The RTA_ macros are exported to user space through kernel
> > headers process. If you do this it will break iproute2 build.
> > 
> 
> They are protected by __KERNEL__, what are you talking about?

Never mind, there are copies in other places in iproute

I plan to get rid of the macro versions of this stuff.
It is a nuisance in iproute for the same reason as the kernel.
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