From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Horman Subject: Re: [oss-drivers] Re: [RFC 3/4] nfp: make use of extended ack message reporting Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:13:16 +0200 Message-ID: <20170426111315.GC28251@vergenet.net> References: <20170425080644.122536-1-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> <20170425080644.122536-4-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> <9765d004-de19-7cf2-fcfc-1d2e72cded43@mojatatu.com> <20170425.102022.219410555949403896.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: jhs@mojatatu.com, jakub.kicinski@netronome.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net, dsa@cumulusnetworks.com, daniel@iogearbox.net, alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com, bblanco@gmail.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com, kubakici@wp.pl, oss-drivers@netronome.com To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f54.google.com ([74.125.82.54]:38597 "EHLO mail-wm0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1038298AbdDZLNY (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:13:24 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-f54.google.com with SMTP id r190so592029wme.1 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 04:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170425.102022.219410555949403896.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:20:22AM -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: Jamal Hadi Salim > Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:42:32 -0400 > > > So are we going to standardize these strings? > > No. > > > i.e what if some user has written a bash script that depends on this > > string and it gets changed later. > > They can't do that. > > It's free form extra information an application may or not provide > to the user when the kernel emits it. I don't feel strongly about this and perhaps it can be revisited at some point but perhaps it would be worth documenting that he strings do not form part of the UAPI as my expectation would have been that they do f.e. to facilitate internationalisation.