netdev - Re: [iproute2-next v2 5/5] devlink: support setting the overwrite mask

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Date:   Tue, 4 Aug 2020 11:31:04 -0700
From:   Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [iproute2-next v2 5/5] devlink: support setting the overwrite
 mask



On 8/3/2020 4:54 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> On 8/3/20 5:30 PM, Jacob Keller wrote:
>>
>> Slightly unrelated: but the recent change to using a bitfield32 results
>> in a "GENMASK is undefined".. I'm not sure what the proper way to fix
>> this is, since we'd like to still use GENMASK to define the supported
>> bitfields. I guess we need to pull in more headers? Or define something
>> in include/utils.h?
>>
> 
> I see that include/linux/bits.h has been pulled into the tools directory
> for perf and power tools (ie., works fine in userspace).
> 
> iproute2 is GPL so should be good from a licensing perspective to copy
> into iproute2. Stephen: any objections?
> 


Hmm... Actually, no other uapi header uses GENMASK.. Perhaps its better
to just avoid using it in the uapi/linux/devlink.h header...