Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:54:45 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Send quota messages via netlink | From | David Miller <> |
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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.
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