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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 17:45:28 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> To: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@...co.com>, John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] macvlan: validate flags On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 06:36:05PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Hello. > > On 01-08-2013 14:48, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > >commit df8ef8f3aaa6692970a436204c4429210addb23a > > Please also specify that commit's summary line in parens. > This is the only way to uniquely identify the commit, and it's the > requirement that came originally from Linus AFAIK. Ouch, no idea why do I keep making this mistake. Will do, thanks. > >added a flags field to macvlan, which can be > >controlled from userspace. > >The idea is to make the interface future-proof > >so we can add flags and not new fields. > > >However, flags value isn't validated, as a result, > >userspace can't detect which flags are supported. > > >Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> > >CC: Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@...co.com> > >Cc: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com> > >Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com> > > WBR, Sergei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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