Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] netlink: specify netlink packet direction for nlmon

From: Daniel Borkmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 05:16:49 +0100

On 12/31/2013 07:50 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Daniel Borkmann <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 18:54:31 +0100
>
>> We could entirely remove it as it was e.g. proposed in 2008 [1]
>> already if you see any value in that. Eventually it's up to Dave and
>> if he likes, I'll be happy to send a patch that removes this define.
>
> Removing user visible defines can break source builds, for example
> someone building string tables or auto-generating things to facilitate
> accessing these values from languages other than C.
>
> It's harmless, since nobody semantically expects anything of it, but
> we have to keep it around.

Ok, that's fine by me.

Thanks for applying Dave and a happy new year!

Best,

Daniel