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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:13:35 -0700 > This is it. Normally netlink payloads are represented as a struct. How > come this one is built-by-hand? He is using attributes, which is perfect and arbitrarily extensible with zero backwards compatability concerns. If he wants to provide a new attribute, he just adds it without any issues. When new attributes are added, older apps simply ignore the attributes they don't understand. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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