netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/9] netlink: strict attribute checking option

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Message-Id: <20151016.010826.1557577128395519123.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 2015 01:08:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jbenc@...hat.com
Cc:	hannes@...essinduktion.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, tgraf@...g.ch
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/9] netlink: strict attribute checking
 option

From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:49:51 +0200

> On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 00:07:12 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>> Do you plan to update rfc3549, too? :}
> 
> No.
> 
> While I think we need to have a detailed documentation on netlink,
> I believe it should reside in Documentation/ inside the kernel tree to
> be easily updated, not in an outside document collection with much more
> heavyweight processes around getting something updated.

I think his point is that you'll be making changes to an RFC specified
protocol.

But I think we need a better solution to this.
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