From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 9/9] taskstats: use the libnl API to align nlattr on 64-bit Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:41:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20160427.124115.463605194182852802.davem@davemloft.net> References: <57201287.80002@gmail.com> <57206A47.2010906@6wind.com> <5720B0A2.1030405@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org, aar@pengutronix.de, pablo@netfilter.org, kaber@trash.net, kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu, pshelar@nicira.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, dev@openvswitch.org, steffen.klassert@secunet.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au To: bsingharora@gmail.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5720B0A2.1030405@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org From: Balbir Singh Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 22:29:22 +1000 > My concern is ABI breakage of user space. The "ABI" is that unrecognized attributes must be silently ignored by userspace.