On Sat, 2005-23-07 at 16:50 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: > No, we use s32 at the moment with the limitation that negative indices > are illegal. We don't have to break the interfaces just because of this, > but since dev_new_ifindex() will be reusing gone indices if needed it > might be possible to at least use u16 within the kernel.
It's not worth it i think - too huge a patch and will deviate from years of what people have been expecting it to be; i just checked some of the snmp code and some RFCs and they do expect it to be s32. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
