Re: [PATCH] IPROUTE: correct nla nested message generated by netem_parse_opt

From: Thomas Graf
Date: Thu Aug 28 2008 - 06:18:32 EST


* David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2008-08-27 23:47
> It doesn't matter what "correct" compat nested attribute parsing
> is or is not. The fact is that RR and PRIO were using a certain
> format, consistently, prior to commit #6. This is what was
> codified in userspace in the iproute2 sources and worked
> correctly until #6.

So we remove nla_parsed_nested_compat() just to add it again under
a different name since netem is still going to use that piece of
code. That certainly makes sense. Fixing prio and rr in stable is
a one liner.
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