From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26357C19F2A for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2022 17:59:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235059AbiHDR7Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2022 13:59:24 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:38552 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230456AbiHDR7X (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2022 13:59:23 -0400 Received: from mail-pl1-x62f.google.com (mail-pl1-x62f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::62f]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 08A5721E0D for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2022 10:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-pl1-x62f.google.com with SMTP id p18so515203plr.8 for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2022 10:59:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=networkplumber-org.20210112.gappssmtp.com; s=20210112; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BwcQN3pfTZOhr8bApWvnkfZQqF/csSZocbJTgzPkL9o=; b=lBQ+8jRiUWo6dWX4UrhHaCTuw8FRuzXD/mYy/oLD38BQbJQ7YQVxS/TcuMvjkFpT9k dOzm7x1Xh7p7tN7TZI6wQuUf5dfGlyh+TvQPe6ZQFmW8JHQhWPU3k2OR/L43JdDAF1lv IvpMtd03PrP8SO7o79O0g3ARI30aP32+tmL7zHspaUsRo2hIvpXEkS7nnF+ht5Wm031U hQNaAHe5IU46WK2bce6CZ4v7HaxmbdYq3dfMAD72Ptw3IOyjPjn5ckLW6YhgbKO6rtaK sTexPEjbefKxop8nErU9ch693WTZBG4e4pzOCrsBod/E7I9XIkJbBexKZnOLDA0gly1k gRdw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BwcQN3pfTZOhr8bApWvnkfZQqF/csSZocbJTgzPkL9o=; b=7ydI8iZsRKy4CTkbglacs2fi7ZDShBHj0/C+SOHEh7FTc4QNIMSkS1xXGn6JEfcXAb vmoV2KEVzxrOLYasdTO5Sx6MCl1b2hMdyAt3T7lh0SEKeIlkIcjaABwNCn9yY91zbfdM 9Me6nTJAznSmM6KOIcZ4yUoTXbzDRSO7iUxMOeX1qWtFhCfe2ro65NiQotb1V8AyGDQ5 o/4wTKi2wbWGgDP+q8Z8Q51M2E0idXoIKDTlUjEMR/cfuVdpMs53MgCYhJkVQobTQGSM 0ubEEV520RACAyvNsv5QwB+jgDnxaf+H7gnDRzAxySZ96oJ9bNswvJ7oK35nQ0JnPmmS LQVQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ACgBeo3Qy2i6hBtaDzndyCK3nee8uUrMnZea7ldpXuu9qdIAL344RyWJ zBhd189hymp7MhQZKWFlU1tmiMBONjL97A== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA6agR5aVg1el+lIrqG4k3EByxhKA5PVe67mmCm5TXzLwTOSl0+TUNRaX/EQV8kLb7ry5uPB+MyFkg== X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:e552:b0:16c:571d:fc08 with SMTP id n18-20020a170902e55200b0016c571dfc08mr2911569plf.151.1659635961517; Thu, 04 Aug 2022 10:59:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hermes.local (204-195-120-218.wavecable.com. [204.195.120.218]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y23-20020a170902b49700b0016bf9437766sm1234810plr.261.2022.08.04.10.59.20 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 04 Aug 2022 10:59:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 10:59:17 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: James Prestwood Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC 1/1] net: move IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE to public flag Message-ID: <20220804105917.79aaf6e9@hermes.local> In-Reply-To: <20220804174307.448527-2-prestwoj@gmail.com> References: <20220804174307.448527-1-prestwoj@gmail.com> <20220804174307.448527-2-prestwoj@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 10:43:07 -0700 James Prestwood wrote: > + * @IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE: device supports hardware address > + * change when it's running. Volatile Since this is a property of the device driver, why is it volatile? When you make it part of uapi, you also want to restrict userspace from changing the value via sysfs?