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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 21:23:03 +0100
From: Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
To: Tom Herbert <tom@...ntonium.net>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
CC: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Rohit Seth <rohit@...ntonium.net>,
Dave Watson <davejwatson@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/5] ulp: Generalize ULP infrastructure
On 08/08/17 20:50, Tom Herbert wrote:
> It's a tradeoff. The nice thing about using strings is that we don't
> need maintain a universal enum.
Hmm, that makes it sound as though you're intending for random out-of-tree
modules to add these things; since if they're in-tree it's easy for them
to get enum values assigned when they're added. Do we really want to
encourage sticking random module code into the network stack like this?
In any case, if you go with the enum approach and later it _does_ prove
necessary to have more flexibility, you can have enum values dynamically
assigned (like genetlink manages to do); and programs using the existing
fixed IDs will continue to work. It's much harder to go the other way...
-Ed
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