From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([5.9.151.49]:46610 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1424172AbdDUSy2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:54:28 -0400 Message-ID: <1492800860.19290.3.camel@sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20170421_205445_515164_EC2774A7) Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] backports: add the necessary backports for netlink extack From: Johannes Berg To: Arend Van Spriel , backports@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 20:54:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: (sfid-20170421_205053_447231_D19084FD) References: <20170421104722.21538-1-johannes@sipsolutions.net> <20170421104722.21538-2-johannes@sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20170421_205053_447231_D19084FD) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2017-04-21 at 20:50 +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote: > On 21-4-2017 12:47, Johannes Berg wrote: > > From: Johannes Berg > > I did not follow everything about this extack thing, but does it > impose a version requirement on the libnl used in user-space? No. It turns out that libnl doesn't care at all about the ack message contents, so you can use any version. Here's a sample iw patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/iw.git/commit/?h=bpf&id=7105f7614c13680306cf3b91ad8711eccfa70df3 > > +/* this is for patches we apply */ > > Guess the comment is inspired by the one below ;-) but would it not > be a bit more clear to say: > > /* this is for files patched using 0078-genl-extack.cocci */ Yeah I guess that'd make some sense :) Though realistically none of it is really all that necessary since one can always grep ;-) johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in