Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:18:40 +0200
From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: alexander.duyck@gmail.com, shemminger@vyatta.com,
       jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       alexander.h.duyck@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPROUTE: correct nla nested message generated by netem_parse_opt
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* David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 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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