netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/5] ulp: Generalize ULP infrastructure

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Message-Id: <20170808.180723.1988658908878753961.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 08 Aug 2017 18:07:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ecree@...arflare.com
Cc:     tom@...ntonium.net, john.fastabend@...il.com, tom@...bertland.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, rohit@...ntonium.net, davejwatson@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/5] ulp: Generalize ULP infrastructure

From: Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 21:23:03 +0100

> 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.

Indeed:

> It's much harder to go the other way...

^^^^ THIS!