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From: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/ncsi: Add generic netlink family
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:29:41 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1519698581.7888.2.camel@mendozajonas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180226.113136.1568195044048732904.davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, 2018-02-26 at 11:31 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:15:18 +1100
> 
> > + * @NCSI_CMD_SET_INTERFACE: set preferred package and channel combination.
> > + *   Requires NCSI_ATTR_IFINDEX and the preferred NCSI_ATTR_PACKAGE_ID and
> > + *   optionally the preferred NCSI_ATTR_CHANNEL_ID. If neither IDs are
> > + *   specified the setting is cleared.
> 
> I think clearing the setting when the required attributes are missing
> is dangerous behavior.
> 
> It is ambiguous whether the user intended the setting to be cleared,
> or was in error and forgot to supply the attribute due to a bug.

Fair point - I'll change this to be an error and add a separate command
to clear the setting explicitly.
In that vein is having NCSI_ATTR_CHANNEL_ID as an optional parameter
ambiguous enough to justify a separate command as well?

Regards,
Sam

      reply	other threads:[~2018-02-27  2:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-23  4:15 [PATCH net-next] net/ncsi: Add generic netlink family Samuel Mendoza-Jonas
2018-02-26 16:31 ` David Miller
2018-02-27  2:29   ` Samuel Mendoza-Jonas [this message]

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