From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>,
davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 04/10] batman-adv: export compatibility version via debugfs
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:29:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5268262.CIrZ93ERtB@bentobox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1353351150.4156.4.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>
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On Monday 19 November 2012 18:52:30 Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 09:24 +0100, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> > Different versions of the batman-adv module may use the same compatibility
> > version, but this is not understandable at runtime (the only way is to
> > parse the kernel log and fetch the batman-adv advertisement message on
> > loading). The user may want to know whether two nodes using different
> > versions can communicate or not. For this purpose the module has to
> > export this value through debugfs.
> [...]
>
> I do hope that you're not planning to use unstable debugfs interfaces
> indefinitely.
Why are you refering to the adding of an file as "incompatible" debugfs
interface? I would call it additional information. And the rest of the commit
message is talking about *possible* protocol incompatibilies of the network
protocol (which caused this uncontrolled erruption of anger in a network
maintainer).
Kind regards,
Sven
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From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>,
davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 04/10] batman-adv: export compatibility version via debugfs
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:29:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5268262.CIrZ93ERtB@bentobox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1353351150.4156.4.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>
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On Monday 19 November 2012 18:52:30 Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 09:24 +0100, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> > Different versions of the batman-adv module may use the same compatibility
> > version, but this is not understandable at runtime (the only way is to
> > parse the kernel log and fetch the batman-adv advertisement message on
> > loading). The user may want to know whether two nodes using different
> > versions can communicate or not. For this purpose the module has to
> > export this value through debugfs.
> [...]
>
> I do hope that you're not planning to use unstable debugfs interfaces
> indefinitely.
Why are you refering to the adding of an file as "incompatible" debugfs
interface? I would call it additional information. And the rest of the commit
message is talking about *possible* protocol incompatibilies of the network
protocol (which caused this uncontrolled erruption of anger in a network
maintainer).
Kind regards,
Sven
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-19 8:24 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] pull request: batman-adv 2012-11-19 Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 01/10] batman-adv: Mark best gateway in transtable_global debugfs Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 02/10] batman-adv: fix bla compare function Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 03/10] batman-adv: support array of debugfs general attributes Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 04/10] batman-adv: export compatibility version via debugfs Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 18:52 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] " Ben Hutchings
2012-11-19 18:52 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-11-19 19:10 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] " David Miller
2012-11-19 19:10 ` David Miller
2012-11-19 19:29 ` Sven Eckelmann [this message]
2012-11-19 19:29 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] " Sven Eckelmann
2012-11-19 19:40 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-11-19 19:40 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-11-19 20:25 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] " Sven Eckelmann
2012-11-19 20:25 ` Sven Eckelmann
2012-11-19 19:47 ` David Miller
2012-11-19 19:47 ` David Miller
2012-11-19 21:09 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] " Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 21:09 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 05/10] batman-adv: Add wrapper to look up neighbor and send skb Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 06/10] batman-adv: sysfs documentation should keep alphabetical order Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 07/10] batman-adv: Add function to calculate crc32c for the skb payload Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 08/10] batman-adv: Fix broadcast duplist for fragmentation Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 09/10] batman-adv: Start new development cycle Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 10/10] batman-adv: Use packing of 2 for all headers before an ethernet header Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-19 8:24 ` Antonio Quartulli
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