Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
On Sat, 2005-23-07 at 16:50 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
No, we use s32 at the moment with the limitation that negative indices
are illegal. We don't have to break the interfaces just because of this,
but since dev_new_ifindex() will be reusing gone indices if needed it
might be possible to at least use u16 within the kernel.
It's not worth it i think - too huge a patch and will deviate from years
of what people have been expecting it to be; i just checked some of the
snmp code and some RFCs and they do expect it to be s32.
Besides, who's to say 65000 interfaces is adequate? :)
Ben
cheers,
jamal
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