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Re: [NETLINK]: Restore API compatibility of address and neighbour bits

From: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
To: stefan at loplof dot de
Cc: tgraf at suug dot ch, dwmw2 at infradead dot org, joseph at codesourcery dot com, netdev at vger dot kernel dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, akpm at osdl dot org
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:33:34 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [NETLINK]: Restore API compatibility of address and neighbour bits
References: <20061207.025140.75779834.davem@davemloft.net> <20061207105502.GJ8693@postel.suug.ch> <200612081526.12651.stefan@loplof.de>

From: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:25:18 +0100 (MET)

> The _RTA and _PAYLOAD-macros are also part of userspace headers and need to be
> restored. Both dhcpclient and quagga need at least IFA_RTA and IFLA_RTA to
> compile, but there may be more macros than in the following patch. You may want
> to look at keepalived, iproute, ...

Those are not coming back, sorry.  They are really broken
and usage is extremely discouraged.

iproute got fixed, dhcpclient and friends should get fixed to not use
them either

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [NETLINK]: Restore API compatibility of address and neighbour bits
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: [NETLINK]: Restore API compatibility of address and neighbour bits
  - From: Stefan Rompf

References:
- Re: Kernel header changes break glibc build
  - From: David Miller
- [NETLINK]: Restore API compatibility of address and neighbour bits
  - From: Thomas Graf
- Re: [NETLINK]: Restore API compatibility of address and neighbour bits
  - From: Stefan Rompf

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