netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: sr: update the struct ipv6_sr

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Date:   Wed, 15 Nov 2017 12:42:02 +0100
From:   Ahmed Abdelsalam <amsalam20@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     ecree@...arflare.com, david.lebrun@...ouvain.be,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: sr: update the struct ipv6_sr_hdr

On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 09:55:32 +0900 (KST)
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> From: Ahmed Abdelsalam <amsalam20@...il.com>
> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:31:48 +0100
> 
> > Also it will not make sense to have the field name differnent from the draft.
> 
> That is the danger of defining user facing things against a draft which
> is constantly changing.
> 

I totally understand your point of keeping the user API unchanged. 

> Sorry, we are stuck with the current name.

For the time being, Can i submit another patch updating the "reserved" bits to be "tag" and just adding a comment next the "first_segment". 
In the comment we can mention that this represent the "last_entry" field of the Segment Routing Header (SRH).

-- 
Ahmed