From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
