netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] netlink: specs: support conditional operations

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Message-Id: 
 <169837502600.8979.17357547047663375407.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 02:50:26 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
 pabeni@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netlink: specs: support conditional operations

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 09:22:53 -0700 you wrote:
> Page pool code is compiled conditionally, but the operations
> are part of the shared netlink family. We can handle this
> by reporting empty list of pools or -EOPNOTSUPP / -ENOSYS
> but the cleanest way seems to be removing the ops completely
> at compilation time. That way user can see that the page
> pool ops are not present using genetlink introspection.
> Same way they'd check if the kernel is "new enough" to
> support the ops.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next] netlink: specs: support conditional operations
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/bc30bb88ff31

You are awesome, thank you!
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