[Babel-users] atomic updates and ipv6 cache flushing issues

[Henning Rogge]

Kernel 2.4.23 (as an example)

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cs4236/readings/out/html/netlink_8h-source.html

Henning

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Henning Rogge <hrogge at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I will check it again, but I am pretty sure we have been using the
> feature at least since Olsr 0.6.0... and we never heard complains.
>
> Henning
>
> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
> <jch at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote:
>>> > 2. When was NLM_F_REPLACE introduced?
>>>
>>> I think we have been using it on Olsr.org for years... so the feature
>>> was already present in kernel 2.4.
>>
>> That's excellent news.  Count me suprised.
>>
>> My git tells me the #define was introduced in 2012, but that's just
>> moving the code from include/linux to uapi/include/linux.  There are
>> occurrences in net/ipv4/fib_trie.c from 2006, so we're probably safe.
>>
>> Thanks for the hint, Henning.  All that remains is for somebody to
>> explain to me what's the deal with flushing the route cache.
>>
>> -- Juliusz
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