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Re: [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit()

From David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit()
Date 2016-05-03 18:10 +0200
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From: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 12:06:44 +0200

> Whereas using some arbitrary value will be wrong,
> and will needlessly break userland.

It cannot break userland.

A fundamental property of netlink is that all code must silently
ignore netlink attributes it does not understand.

This is why netlink is easily extensible.

If code isn't doing that, it is broken and must be fixed.

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[PATCH net-next] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit() Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> - 2016-05-03 11:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH net-next] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit() Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> - 2016-05-03 11:30 +0200
    [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit() Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> - 2016-05-03 11:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit() Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> - 2016-05-03 12:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit() Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> - 2016-05-03 14:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit() David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-05-03 18:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit() Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> - 2016-05-04 11:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit() Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> - 2016-05-04 14:50 +0200
              Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use  nla_put_u64_64bit() Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> - 2016-05-04 15:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit() Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 16:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit() David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-05-04 19:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit() Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 19:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit() David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-05-04 18:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit() David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-05-03 18:10 +0200
        [PATCH net-next v3] block/drbd: align properly u64 in nl messages Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> - 2016-05-09 11:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH net-next v3] block/drbd: align properly u64 in nl messages Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> - 2016-05-09 15:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH net-next v3] block/drbd: align properly u64 in nl messages Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> - 2016-05-10 11:20 +0200
              Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH net-next v3] block/drbd: align properly u64 in  nl messages Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> - 2016-05-10 11:50 +0200
                Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH net-next v3] block/drbd: align properly u64 in  nl messages Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> - 2016-05-10 12:10 +0200
                Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH net-next v3] block/drbd: align properly u64  in nl messages David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-05-10 17:50 +0200
                Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH net-next v3] block/drbd: align properly u64 in  nl messages Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> - 2016-05-10 21:10 +0200
                Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH net-next v3] block/drbd: align properly u64  in nl messages David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-05-10 21:30 +0200

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