linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: openvswitch: fix uAPI incompatibility with existing user space

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Date:   Fri, 11 Mar 2022 04:30:13 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@....org>
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, roid@...dia.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        pshelar@....org, cpp.code.lv@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        dev@...nvswitch.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        johannes@...solutions.net, aconole@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: openvswitch: fix uAPI incompatibility with
 existing user space

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (master)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Wed,  9 Mar 2022 23:20:33 +0100 you wrote:
> Few years ago OVS user space made a strange choice in the commit [1]
> to define types only valid for the user space inside the copy of a
> kernel uAPI header.  '#ifndef __KERNEL__' and another attribute was
> added later.
> 
> This leads to the inevitable clash between user space and kernel types
> when the kernel uAPI is extended.  The issue was unveiled with the
> addition of a new type for IPv6 extension header in kernel uAPI.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next,v2] net: openvswitch: fix uAPI incompatibility with existing user space
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/1926407a4ab0

You are awesome, thank you!
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