[PATCH] CTA_PROTO_NUM is u_int8_t not u_int16_t (was Re: CTA_PROTO_NUM u_int8_t or u_int16_t)

Krzysztof Oledzki olenf at ans.pl
Fri Nov 25 01:28:36 CET 2005



On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
>> Old binaries are not able to deal with CTA_PROTO and will not be able to 
>> parse this attribute received from kernel. We should keep CTA_PROTO_NUM 
>> here, but this leads to u_int8_t/u_int16_t mismatch in the code.
>
> I didn't notice that, we of course need to dump both attributes.
Both? We already send CTA_PROTO_NUM as u_int8_t to userspace and 
libnfnetlink has no problem with that.

Best regards,

 			Krzysztof Olędzki


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