netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 0/8] flow_dissector: Protocol specific flow dissector offload

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Date:   Fri, 29 Sep 2017 18:42:45 +0100 (WEST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tom@...bertland.com
Cc:     hannes@...essinduktion.org, tom@...ntonium.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, rohit@...ntonium.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 0/8] flow_dissector: Protocol specific flow
 dissector offload

From: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:48:55 -0700

> The flow_dissector interface is not a uAPI.

That's not true, insofar as cls_flower.c uses the flow_dissector
therefore if you change the flow_dissector in certain ways then
cls_flower.c might have it's behavior changed and that is in fact UAPI
facing.