Messages in this thread |  | | From | kuznet@ms2 ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19 | Date | Mon, 10 Sep 2001 23:36:20 +0400 (MSK DST) |
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Hello!
> a bad idea after all. Whining about this causing "bloat and maintainance
Listen, let's close this thread. :-)
The patch sent by Matthias is enough small not to speak about some bloat.
And I see no reasons to refuse this: it evidently improves the things almost without efforts. No matter that this imporvement is not so useful, as it would happen if I guessed this way from the very beginning. So that applications will have to worry about compatibility with older kernels in any case.
(BTW Matthias, while applying it to my tree, I noticed that it does not check for SIOGGIFNETMASK. It would be better to do this only when it is meaningful: I see only SIOGGIFNETMASK and SIOGGIFBROADCAST).
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