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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:29:07 +0100
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 04/10] batman-adv: export compatibility
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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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