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Message-Id: <20160419.121227.1437003570791513649.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 19 Apr 2016 12:12:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	stephen@...workplumber.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/hsr: Added support for HSR v1

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 08:21:00 -0700

> On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:52:22 +0200
> Peter Heise <mail@...ise.de> wrote:
> 
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
>> index 9427f17..bb3a90b 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
>> @@ -773,6 +773,7 @@ enum {
>>  	IFLA_HSR_SLAVE1,
>>  	IFLA_HSR_SLAVE2,
>>  	IFLA_HSR_MULTICAST_SPEC,	/* Last byte of supervision addr */
>> +	IFLA_HSR_VERSION,		/* HSR version */
>>  	IFLA_HSR_SUPERVISION_ADDR,	/* Supervision frame multicast addr */
>>  	IFLA_HSR_SEQ_NR,
> 
> You added a new value into the middle of an enumeration field.
> This breaks kernel ABI. Older applications (like iproute) would see the wrong
> values.
> 
> Please submit a new change which moves HSR_VERSION to the end of the enum

Good catch, Stephen.