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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Cc: Netfilter Devel <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Duncan Roe <duncan_roe@optusnet.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH libmnl v3 2/2] libmnl: add support for signed types
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 23:46:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YvwQGbtindrKWr0s@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220808175020.2983706-2-jacob.e.keller@intel.com>

On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 10:50:20AM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:
> libmnl has get and put functions for unsigned integer types. It lacks
> support for the signed variations. On some level this is technically
> sufficient. A user could use the unsigned variations and then cast to a
> signed value at use. However, this makes resulting code in the application
> more difficult to follow. Introduce signed variations of the integer get
> and put functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
> ---
> Changes since v2
> * Fixed the ABI breakage (oops!)
> 
>  include/libmnl/libmnl.h |  16 ++++
>  src/attr.c              | 194 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-

I'm missing one more update for src/libmnl.map.

BTW, how does the library size increase after these new symbols?

  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-16 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-08 17:50 [PATCH libmnl v3 1/2] libmnl: update attribute function comments to use \return Jacob Keller
2022-08-08 17:50 ` [PATCH libmnl v3 2/2] libmnl: add support for signed types Jacob Keller
2022-08-16 21:46   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2022-08-16 21:44 ` [PATCH libmnl v3 1/2] libmnl: update attribute function comments to use \return Pablo Neira Ayuso

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