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

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Date:	Sat, 28 May 2016 00:02:55 +0800
From:	Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
	Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
	Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>, daniel@...earbox.net,
	Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sctp: sctp_diag should dump sctp socket type

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 3:24 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> 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.
got you, I will move this field to the end of struct sctp_info.