On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:52:03 +1000 Russell Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 10:21 -0500, jamal wrote: > > It could - if it can proven to maintain backward compatibility. I > > think backward compatibility would probably be fine to be defined as "it > > works with one byte". > > But you are right. It is a pain. One suggestion Stephen Hemminger had > > was to transport the hash on a TLV; I am not a big fan of dynamic > > coding. > > If you reject utsname, then this is the only way to maintain > backward compatibility. > Also using utsname won't work if you want to do remote netlink (which jamal talks about but don't know if it ever gets used). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
