netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sctp: sctp_diag should dump sctp socket type

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Date:	Wed, 25 May 2016 12:24:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	lucien.xin@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
	marcelo.leitner@...il.com, vyasevich@...il.com,
	daniel@...earbox.net, phil@....cc
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sctp: sctp_diag should dump sctp socket type

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 03:14:28 +0800

> For sctp_diag, ss support is not officially available, thus there
> are no official users of this yet, so we can add this field in the
> middle of sctp_info without breaking user API.

This is not what matters.

What matters is if a released kernel went out with the existing API.