netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] net: sched: cls: add extack support

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Date:   Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:27:50 -0500
From:   Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>
Cc:     Alexander Aring <aring@...atatu.com>, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
        jiri@...nulli.us, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...atatu.com, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] net: sched: cls: add extack support

On 18-01-16 05:41 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:12:57 -0500, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>> On 18-01-16 04:46 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>>> On Tue, 16 Jan 2018 12:20:19 -0500, Alexander Aring wrote:
>>
>> [..]
>>

>> I would say precedence should be Jiri's patches, Alex's patches
>> and then yours:
>> Alex's patches fix the core (cls_api.c) area with proper extack
>> for the core and then he has one patch to cover a specific
>> use case of the u32 classifier extack. Yours is only concerned
>> with one use case - bpf which depend on the core (that is in Alex's
>> patches)
> 
> Our patches are concerned with propagating the extack to drivers,
> and nfp (and netdevsim) make use of it.
> 
> I'm miffed by the fact that you jumped out with this conflicting series
> *after* we posted ours, and we got shot down on white space.

I totally empathize with the general frustration.
The general rule is we fix the core first then add users (classifiers in
this case). Note:
Alex has a _lot_ of patches that he has been trying to send for the
last little while and this one is certainly not a new set (I actually
had reviewed this set). There are others. And the rule of "fix core
first then add users" has been imposed on him as well.

cheers,
jamal