CCing Hasso Tepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hasso, please comment on this thread (apologies, I forgot the other guy's name; so if you can CC all the necessary suspects to comment, it would help).
cheers, jamal On Mon, 2006-14-08 at 19:43 -0400, jamal wrote: > On Mon, 2006-14-08 at 00:00 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: > > plain text document attachment (rtnl_convert_ip6_addr) > > Fixes a wrong use of current->pid as netlink pid. > > If i am not mistaken: > Some of these removals of current->pid will affect users such as quagga, > zebra, vrrpd etc. If those specific users are not affected, please > ignore the rest of my comments. > > I realize mr. Kuznetsov submitted at least one patch in the past to do > something similar to this. > IMO, I believe there is a strong case that can be made for events that > were caused by non-netlink users such as ioctls that could at least be > multicast with current->pid. In other words an exception case for only > this scenario. In such a case there is no unicast netlink message. > It would also be acceptable if the quagga etc folks could meet their > goals some other way. > > cheers, > jamal > > > - > 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 > - 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
