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 10:02:21 +0200 Message-ID: <20151016100221.6fd5034f@griffin> References: <20151015.235007.973370825335101214.davem@davemloft.net> <20151016093945.54a6a7aa@griffin> <20151016.010644.2090038835491896678.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, tgraf@suug.ch To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45312 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753602AbbJPICZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2015 04:02:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20151016.010644.2090038835491896678.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 01:06:44 -0700 (PDT), David Miller wrote: > No, it's definitely not OK, because lwtunnel support exists in > Linus's tree. > > And tools should be able to work on all kernels where lwtunnel support > is available. You can consider the lwtunnels feature as not finished in the current Linus's tree. It works, it won't change (thus anything using it in its current form will continue to work in all the future kernels), but mainstream tools won't make use of it until a kernel version later which will get some additional support. I don't think it's much of a problem and I don't think it is the first time this would happen. I'm afraid I don't have any solution that could do better. Jiri -- Jiri Benc