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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat•com>
To: Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@gmail•com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat•com, Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox•com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: private netdev flags into UAPI?
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:03:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <990.1353981789@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZOPZLQSCNTfSm63z1P_S4ZmwL+9mbP7rOCH7yHgBFcjaz1UA@mail.gmail.com>

Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@gmail•com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:22 AM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat•com> 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.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-27  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-25  7:43 private netdev flags into UAPI? Or Gerlitz
2012-11-26  9:22 ` David Howells
2012-11-26 22:29   ` Or Gerlitz
2012-11-27  2:03     ` David Howells [this message]
2012-11-27  6:51       ` Or Gerlitz

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