Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] gtp: support multiple APN's per GTP endpoint

David Miller
2017-03-14T18:32:11Z

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.