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Date:   Thu, 17 Sep 2020 23:42:41 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ethtool: add and use message type for tunnel info
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> On the other hand, the enums are part of userspace API so I better take
> a closer look to make sure we don't run into some trouble there.

Hi Michal

Yes, that is what i was thinking about. But i guess you can pass a
tagged enum to a function expecting an int and the compiler will
silently cast it. Which is what we should have at the moment. So i'm
expecting it to be O.K.

	  Andrew