Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ieee802154: Fix compilation error when CONFIG_IEEE802154_NL802154_EXPERIMENTAL is disabled

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 13:23:38 -0700

On Thu, 1 Sep 2022 09:38:35 +0300 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> There is no such thing like experimental UAPI. Once you put something
> in UAPI headers and/or allowed users to issue calls from userspace
> to kernel, they can use it. We don't control how users compile their
> kernels.
> 
> So it is not break "experimental commands", but break commands that
> maybe shouldn't exist in first place.
> 
> nl802154 code suffers from two basic mistakes:
> 1. User visible defines are not part of UAPI headers. For example,
> include/net/nl802154.h should be in include/uapi/net/....
> 2. Used Kconfig option for pseudo-UAPI header.
> 
> In this specific case, I checked that Fedora didn't enable this
> CONFIG_IEEE802154_NL802154_EXPERIMENTAL knob, but someone needs
> to check debian and other distros too.
> 
> Most likely it is not used at all.

You're right, FWIW. I didn't want to get sidetracked into that before
we fix the immediate build issue. It's not the only family playing uAPI
games :(