Subject: Re: private netdev flags into UAPI?

From: Or Gerlitz <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:51:28 +0200

On 27/11/2012 04:03, David Howells wrote:
> Or Gerlitz <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:22 AM, David Howells <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>> They were exposed to userspace already
>> So the script carries the bug into a new directory... why? AFAIK,
>> intentionally there's no way to read private flags from user space, so
>> what's the point in defining them there?
> How should the script know what's private and what's not?  By the
> encapsulation of code inside __KERNEL__ blocks.  In their absence, everything
> is assumed to be public - given it is already part of the UAPI.  I don't know
> that the code is private rather than the comment is wrong.
>
>

makes sense, but I have pointed on a bug in the final result, so this 
way or another, the fact that the bug
existed before doesn't mean we should carry it over.

Or.