Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753270AbcD0QlU (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:41:20 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:51116 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751550AbcD0QlT (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:41:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:41:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20160427.124115.463605194182852802.davem@davemloft.net> To: bsingharora@gmail.com 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 9/9] taskstats: use the libnl API to align nlattr on 64-bit From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <5720B0A2.1030405@gmail.com> References: <57201287.80002@gmail.com> <57206A47.2010906@6wind.com> <5720B0A2.1030405@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.6 on Emacs 24.5 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 208 Lines: 7 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.