From: Stefano Salsano <stefano.salsano@uniroma2.it>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
dav.lebrun@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, leon@kernel.org, ast@kernel.org,
daniel@iogearbox.net, kafai@fb.com, songliubraving@fb.com,
yhs@fb.com, andriin@fb.com, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
paolo.lungaroni@cnit.it, ahmed.abdelsalam@gssi.it
Subject: Re: [net-next] seg6: add support for optional attributes during behavior construction
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 03:32:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a9409cd-0e2b-577b-f522-4149beca9d7c@uniroma2.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200330.174944.1829532392145435132.davem@davemloft.net>
Il 2020-03-31 02:49, David Miller ha scritto:
> From: Stefano Salsano <stefano.salsano@uniroma2.it>
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 01:23:48 +0200
>
>> Of course a new application (e.g. iproute2, pyroute) using a new optional
>> parameter will not work on older kernels, but simply because the new parameter
>> is not supported. It will not work even without our proposed patch.
>>
>> On the other hand, we think that the solution in the patch is more backward
>> compatible. Without the patch, if we define new attributes, old applications
>> (e.g. iproute2 scripts) will not work on newer kernels, while with the optional
>> attributes approach proposed in the patch they will work with no issues !
>
> Translation: You want to add backwards compatibility problems because
> otherwise you'll have to add backwards compatibility problems.
no this is not the correct translation :-) we do not want to add any
backward compatility problem
we need to add a number of new parameters, if we keep the current
approach these parameters will be mandatory and we will have backward
compatibility problems: old applications will not work with new kernels
if we are allowed to add optional parameters, old applications and new
applications will be able to work with old kernels and new kernels in
any combination
> Sorry, I'm still not convinced.
>
> You must find another way to achieve your objective.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-31 1:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-19 18:36 [net-next] seg6: add support for optional attributes during behavior construction Andrea Mayer
2020-03-26 2:30 ` David Miller
2020-03-30 23:23 ` Stefano Salsano
2020-03-31 0:49 ` David Miller
2020-03-31 1:32 ` Stefano Salsano [this message]
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2020-02-03 14:36 Andrea Mayer
2020-02-03 15:08 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-02-05 16:37 ` Andrea Mayer
2020-01-27 19:04 Andrea Mayer
2020-01-29 10:13 ` David Miller
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