On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Julius Volz wrote: >> ipvsadm uses get/set-sockopts on a raw socket to pass commands and >> structs (as defined in include/net/ip_vs.h) to the kernel. So the >> passed structs have to match exactly between userspace and kernel. The >> kernel ip_vs.h also includes a version number that is used to verify >> that ipvsadm matches your kernel version. > > So they define an ABI, which means they must not be changed in > incompabtible ways. The question is whether they are actually > changed in incomaptible ways. It is clearly laid out to be able to be changed over time, hence the ipvsadm version check... I think this whole interface is quite an exception though. Julius -- Google Switzerland GmbH -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lvs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
