On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:08:15PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > Or use NETLINK sockets which are built specifically to do these kinds > of operations efficiently. patches welcome. now that those are mandatory it is an option, before, it was not (IMHO). I am also thinking about phasing out backward compatibility... so essentially 2.0 kernels will be stuck with 1.60 or something. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- Bernd_Eckenfels@Wendelinusstrasse39.76646Bruchsal.de -- ( .. ) ecki@{inka.de,linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD eckes@irc +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (O____O) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl! - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html