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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, ying.xue@windriver.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, cwang@twopensource.com, xemul@openvz.org,
	eric.dumazet@gmail.com, maxk@qti.qualcomm.com,
	stephen@networkplumber.org, tgraf@suug.ch,
	nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, tom@herbertland.com,
	jchapman@katalix.com, erik.hugne@ericsson.com,
	jon.maloy@ericsson.com, horms@verge.net.au,
	herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] net: Add a struct net parameter to sock_create_kern
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 10:45:39 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150512.104539.1602376250460164798.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D1CB33641@AcuExch.aculab.com>

From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 08:24:11 +0000

> Changing the function prototype will a PITA for anyone doing back-ports of fixes.
> (And more so for anyone trying to get a driver to build against kernels
> that might have this change back-ported.)

As someone who actually does such backports every week or two for up
to 5 different -stable releases, I really don't find it to be a big
deal, and I've therefore developed a very low level of sympathy for
this argument so please don't make it as a reason to not make an
interface change.

Thanks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-12 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-07  8:52 [RFC PATCH net-next 00/11] netns: don't switch namespace while creating kernel sockets Ying Xue
2015-05-07  8:52 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 01/11] netns: Fix race between put_net() and netlink_kernel_create() Ying Xue
2015-05-07  9:04   ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-07 17:19     ` Cong Wang
2015-05-07 17:28       ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-08 11:20       ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-08 11:20       ` Ying Xue
2015-05-07  8:52 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 02/11] netlink: avoid unnecessary namespace switch when create netlink kernel sockets Ying Xue
2015-05-07  8:52 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 03/11] tun: avoid unnecessary namespace switch during kernel socket creation Ying Xue
2015-05-07  8:52 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 04/11] inet: " Ying Xue
2015-05-07  8:52 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 05/11] udp_tunnel: avoid to switch namespace for tunnel socket Ying Xue
2015-05-07  8:52 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 06/11] ip6_udp_tunnel: " Ying Xue
2015-05-07  8:52 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 07/11] l2tp: avoid to switch namespace for l2tp " Ying Xue
2015-05-07  8:52 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 08/11] ipvs: avoid to switch namespace for ipvs kernel socket Ying Xue
2015-05-07  8:52 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 09/11] tipc: fix net leak issue Ying Xue
2015-05-07  8:52 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 10/11] tipc: remove sk_change_net interface Ying Xue
2015-05-07  8:52 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 11/11] net: change behaviours of functions of creating and releasing kernel sockets Ying Xue
2015-05-07 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 00/11] netns: don't switch namespace while creating " Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-07 18:19   ` Cong Wang
2015-05-07 18:26     ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-07 18:53       ` Cong Wang
2015-05-07 18:58         ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-07 19:29           ` Cong Wang
2015-05-07 20:01             ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-08  9:10               ` Ying Xue
2015-05-08 11:15                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-08  8:50   ` Ying Xue
2015-05-08  9:25     ` Ying Xue
2015-05-08 11:07     ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-08 16:33       ` Cong Wang
2015-05-08 14:07   ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-08 17:36     ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-08 20:27       ` Cong Wang
2015-05-08 21:13         ` Cong Wang
2015-05-08 22:08           ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-09  1:13       ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-09  1:53         ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-09  2:05         ` [PATCH 0/6] Cleanup the " Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-09  2:07           ` [PATCH 1/6] tun: Utilize the normal socket network namespace refcounting Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-09  2:08           ` [PATCH 2/6] net: Add a struct net parameter to sock_create_kern Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-12  8:24             ` David Laight
2015-05-12  8:55               ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-12 11:48                 ` David Laight
2015-05-12 12:28                   ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-05-12 13:16                     ` David Laight
2015-05-12 14:15                       ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-05-12 15:58                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-12 14:45               ` David Miller [this message]
2015-05-09  2:09           ` [PATCH 3/6] net: Pass kern from net_proto_family.create to sk_alloc Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-09 16:51             ` Eric Dumazet
2015-05-09 17:31               ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-09  2:10           ` [PATCH 4/6] net: Modify sk_alloc to not reference count the netns of kernel sockets Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-09  2:11           ` [PATCH 5/6] netlink: Create kernel netlink sockets in the proper network namespace Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-09  2:12           ` [PATCH 6/6] net: kill sk_change_net and sk_release_kernel Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-09  2:38           ` [PATCH 0/6] Cleanup the kernel sockets Herbert Xu
2015-05-11 14:53           ` David Miller

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