From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Benc Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/9] netlink: strict attribute checking option Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:49:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20151016094951.11146959@griffin> References: <87r3kv3hwv.fsf@stressinduktion.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Graf To: Hannes Frederic Sowa Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:43160 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753546AbbJPHty (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2015 03:49:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87r3kv3hwv.fsf@stressinduktion.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 00:07:12 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > Do you plan to update rfc3549, too? :} No. While I think we need to have a detailed documentation on netlink, I believe it should reside in Documentation/ inside the kernel tree to be easily updated, not in an outside document collection with much more heavyweight processes around getting something updated. I would offer taking the RFC 3549 into the kernel tree and extending it but my understanding of the license is that I'm not allowed to do that (as I would modify the "document itself"). Jiri -- Jiri Benc