From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: aschultz@tpip.net
Cc: pablo@netfilter.org, laforge@gnumonks.org,
osmocom-net-gprs@lists.osmocom.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Lionel.Gauthier@eurecom.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] gtp: support multiple APN's per GTP endpoint
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:32:09 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170314.113209.1471920938953197702.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2005226672.385248.1489495364893.JavaMail.zimbra@tpip.net>
From: Andreas Schultz <aschultz@tpip.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 13:42:44 +0100 (CET)
> The specific use case of the API that is no longer supported was never used by
> anyone. The only supported and documented API for the GTP module is libgtpnl.
> libgtpnl has always required the now mandatory fields. Therefor the externally
> supported API does not change.
That's not how kernel development works, sorry.
Any user visible interface the kernel exports is not to be broken,
even if you think you control the one library that makes use of it.
This is especially important for netlink because netlink is more like
a networking protocol, that arbitrary programs can listen to for
events.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-14 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-14 11:25 [PATCH net-next 0/4] gtp: support multiple APN's per GTP endpoint Andreas Schultz
2017-03-14 11:25 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] gtp: move TEID hash to per socket structure Andreas Schultz
2017-03-14 11:33 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-03-14 12:32 ` Andreas Schultz
2017-03-14 11:25 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] gtp: add genl cmd to enable GTP encapsulation on UDP socket Andreas Schultz
2017-03-14 11:43 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-03-14 12:28 ` Andreas Schultz
2017-03-14 13:39 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-03-14 11:25 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] gtp: add support to select a GTP socket during PDP context creation Andreas Schultz
2017-03-14 11:25 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] Extend Kernel GTP-U tunneling documentation Andreas Schultz
2017-03-14 11:45 ` [PATCH net-next 0/4] gtp: support multiple APN's per GTP endpoint Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-03-14 12:42 ` Andreas Schultz
2017-03-14 13:42 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-03-14 13:52 ` Harald Welte
2017-03-14 18:32 ` David Miller [this message]
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