From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] batman-adv: export compatibility version via debugfs Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:52:30 +0000 Message-ID: <1353351150.4156.4.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> References: <1353313451-2930-1-git-send-email-ordex@autistici.org> <1353313451-2930-5-git-send-email-ordex@autistici.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , , , Marek Lindner To: Antonio Quartulli Return-path: Received: from webmail.solarflare.com ([12.187.104.25]:32719 "EHLO webmail.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753987Ab2KSSwe (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:52:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1353313451-2930-5-git-send-email-ordex@autistici.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.