netdev - Re: [oss-drivers] Re: [RFC 3/4] nfp: make use of extended ack message reporting

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Date:   Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:44:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     simon.horman@...ronome.com
Cc:     jhs@...atatu.com, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, johannes@...solutions.net,
        dsa@...ulusnetworks.com, daniel@...earbox.net,
        alexei.starovoitov@...il.com, bblanco@...il.com,
        john.fastabend@...il.com, kubakici@...pl, oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [oss-drivers] Re: [RFC 3/4] nfp: make use of extended ack
 message reporting

From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:13:16 +0200

> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:20:22AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
>> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:42:32 -0400
>> 
>> > So are we going to standardize these strings?
>> 
>> No.
>> 
>> > i.e what if some user has written a bash script that depends on this
>> > string and it gets changed later.
>> 
>> They can't do that.
>> 
>> It's free form extra information an application may or not provide
>> to the user when the kernel emits it.
> 
> I don't feel strongly about this and perhaps it can be revisited at some
> point but perhaps it would be worth documenting that he strings do not
> form part of the UAPI as my expectation would have been that they do f.e. to
> facilitate internationalisation.

These two things are entirely separate.

We can maintain uptodate translations of the strings, yet document that
they can change at any time and are thus not UAPI.