From: roprabhu <roprabhu@cisco.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] if_link: Add PORT_REQUEST_MAX
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:16:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C99D746F.218CD%roprabhu@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110309.124916.183062823.davem@davemloft.net>
On 3/9/11 12:49 PM, "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@cisco.com>
> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:34:31 -0800
>
>> From: Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@cisco.com>
>>
>> This patch adds __PORT_REQUEST_MAX to port request enumeration. And defines
>> PORT_REQUEST_MAX.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@cisco.com>
>> Signed-off-by: David Wang <dwang2@cisco.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Benvenuti <benve@cisco.com>
>
> Why?
>
> If some new request types get added, this max value will increase and
> we don't want that to happen for things exposed to userspace.
>
> Userspace should really not depend upon how many requests there are.
O ok. Did not know the reason why its was not there. Point taken. Pls
ignore. Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-10 2:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-09 20:34 [net-next-2.6 PATCH] if_link: Add PORT_REQUEST_MAX Roopa Prabhu
2011-03-09 20:49 ` David Miller
2011-03-10 2:16 ` roprabhu [this message]
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