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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:41:07 +0200
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2 4/4] batman-adv: debugfs: Add netns
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Hi Andrew & list,

On Sunday 13 March 2016 16:42:22 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:12:07AM +0100, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> > On Monday 07 March 2016 15:21:07 Matthias Schiffer wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> > > By the way, the netns support is another good reason to switch from the
> > > debugfs interfaces to a netlink-based interface (as the netlink
> > > interface
> > > wouldn't need userspace applications like batctl to be aware of the
> > > namespaces). I guess I should finally finish the patches I started
> > > writing
> > > for that...
> > 
> > So what is your suggestion here? Should the namespace support for
> > namespaces be rejected and you send in your netlink implementation
> > patches? Or should this patch be merged and be removed (together with the
> > rest of the debugfs stuff) when your netlink support is integrated?
> 
> Hi Sven
> 
> I would expect the debugfs code to stay around for a while, so people
> have a chance to upgrade their batctl and alfred to the new API. We
> probably need one release with both?

we had a phone discussion with Antonio, Marek, Sven and myself how to move 
forward with netlink and namespace support.

We concluded that having proper netlink support would be the more future proof 
option. We would then keep debugfs but slowly phase it out in the next coming 
years. New features would also be adopted in the netlink implementation.

It was also our impression that having the namespace support within netlink 
would be the cleaner approach, although it takes more work because it requires 
the netlink and appropriate userspace changes.

Andrew, what do you think? Would you like to check and rebase on Matthias' 
patchset?

Thanks,
    Simon
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