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From: Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.ibm.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, esyr@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kgraul@linux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 0/3] net/smc: move some definitions to UAPI
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:10:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20af78a4-ded5-57ca-bd77-303cc7a59cf5@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190924.165240.1617972512581218831.davem@davemloft.net>



On 9/24/19 4:52 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 17:41:47 +0200
> 
>> As of now, it's a bit difficult to use SMC protocol, as significant part
>> of definitions related to it are defined in private headers and are not
>> part of UAPI. The following commits move some definitions to UAPI,
>> making them readily available to the user space.
>>
>> Changes since v1[1]:
>>  * Patch "provide fallback diagnostic codes in UAPI" is updated
>>    in accordance with the updated set of diagnostic codes.
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/7/177
> 
> Isn't it way too late for this?
> 
> These definitions will now be duplicates for userland code that
> defines the values on their own.
>

Dave,
we have to admit that it is already late for these patches. Nevertheless
we think it is better to come up with them now than never. We doubt there
exists already much userland code for it - except our own IBM-provided
package smc-tools. Thus we appreciate acceptance of these patches.

Kind regards, Ursula

 


  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-25 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-20 15:41 [PATCH net v2 0/3] net/smc: move some definitions to UAPI Eugene Syromiatnikov
2019-09-20 15:41 ` [PATCH net v2 1/3] uapi, net/smc: move protocol constant " Eugene Syromiatnikov
2019-09-20 15:41 ` [PATCH net v2 2/3] uapi, net/smc: provide fallback diagnostic codes in UAPI Eugene Syromiatnikov
2019-09-20 15:42 ` [PATCH net v2 3/3] uapi, net/smc: provide socket state constants " Eugene Syromiatnikov
2019-09-23 15:27 ` [PATCH net v2 0/3] net/smc: move some definitions to UAPI Ursula Braun
2019-09-24 14:52 ` David Miller
2019-09-25 12:10   ` Ursula Braun [this message]
2019-09-25 14:16     ` David Miller

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