netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/9] net: dsa: allow the DSA master to be seen and changed through rtnetlink

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Message-ID: <20220901132903.yidpk3v4wrm4hfu4@skbuf>
Date:   Thu, 1 Sep 2022 13:29:04 +0000
From:   Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/9] net: dsa: allow the DSA master to be seen
 and changed through rtnetlink

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 08:50:20PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> net/dsa/port.c: In function ‘dsa_port_change_master’:
> net/dsa/port.c:1414:13: warning: unused variable ‘port’ [-Wunused-variable]
>  1414 |         int port = dp->index;
>       |             ^~~~

I did build patch by patch, but in the sea of stuff that got rebuilt
when I modified include/uapi/linux/if_link.h, I couldn't notice anything.

> I presume you had a look around what side effects setting rtnl_link_ops
> will have? Should .netns_refund be true?

I'm not quite sure what other side effects there will be. The netns_refund
property should be set to true, yes.