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From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>
To: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@cumulusnetworks•com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>,
	vyasevich@gmail•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	wkok@cumulusnetworks•com, gospo@cumulusnetworks•com,
	sashok@cumulusnetworks•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: add vlan id to mdb notifications
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:45:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54763BE0.8000103@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54762CB3.4090101@cumulusnetworks.com>

On 11/26/14, 11:40 AM, Jonathan Toppins wrote:
> On 11/26/14 1:56 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 05:53:33 -0800
>> roopa@cumulusnetworks•com wrote:
>>
>>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h 
>>> b/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
>>> index da17e45..db061fd 100644
>>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
>>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
>>> @@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ struct br_mdb_entry {
>>>               struct in6_addr ip6;
>>>           } u;
>>>           __be16        proto;
>>> +        __be16        vid;
>>>       } addr;
>>>   };
>>>
>>
>> You can't add fields to existing binary API
>>
>
> Roopa, maybe a description of what use case this is trying to solve 
> would better justify the addition to the UAPI?
>
I don't think a description of use case can be used to justify a UAPI 
breakage. Getting the patch out was mainly to see if this really breaks 
UAPI.
Basically to get some feedback.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-26 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-26 13:53 [PATCH net-next] bridge: add vlan id to mdb notifications roopa
2014-11-26 18:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-11-26 19:40   ` Jonathan Toppins
2014-11-26 20:45     ` Roopa Prabhu [this message]
2014-11-26 20:40   ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-11-26 21:53     ` Thomas Graf
2014-11-28 10:18       ` Roopa Prabhu

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