From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 16:42:22 +0100 From: Andrew Lunn Message-ID: <20160313154222.GD9674@lunn.ch> References: <1456867148-31883-1-git-send-email-andrew@lunn.ch> <1456867148-31883-5-git-send-email-andrew@lunn.ch> <56DD8E53.3010904@universe-factory.net> <9919433.c4WuAskJuF@sven-edge> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9919433.c4WuAskJuF@sven-edge> Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2 4/4] batman-adv: debugfs: Add netns support List-Id: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking 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? Andrew