netdev - Re: [PATCH 04/10] batman-adv: export compatibility version via debugfs

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Message-ID: <1353351150.4156.4.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:52:30 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Antonio Quartulli <ordex@...istici.org>
CC:	<davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org>,
	Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@...oo.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] batman-adv: export compatibility version via
 debugfs

On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 09:24 +0100, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> Different versions of the batman-adv module may use the same compatibility
> version, but this is not understandable at runtime (the only way is to parse the
> kernel log and fetch the batman-adv advertisement message on loading). The user
> may want to know whether two nodes using different versions can communicate or
> not. For this purpose the module has to export this value through debugfs.
[...]

I do hope that you're not planning to use unstable debugfs interfaces
indefinitely.

Ben.

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