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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:34:30 +0200
From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 net-next 2/4] net: filter: split filter.h and expose
 eBPF to user space
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On 10/13/2014 11:49 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 09/03/2014 05:46 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> ...
>>>
>>> Ok, given you post the remaining two RFCs later on this window as
>>> you indicate, I have no objections:
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
>>
>> Ping, Alexei, are you still sending the patch for bpf_common.h or
>> do you want me to take care of this?
>
> It's not forgotten.
> I'm not sending it only because net-next is closed
> and it seems to be -next material.

Well, the point was since it's UAPI you're modifying, that it needs
to be shipped before it first gets exposed to user land ...

I think that should be reason enough ... there's no point in doing
this at a later point in time.
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