netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net/hsr: add protocol version to fill

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Message-ID: <20250919105816.GA589507@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:58:16 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Jan Vaclav <jvaclav@...hat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/hsr: add protocol version to fill_info
 output

On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 02:53:38PM +0200, Jan Vaclav wrote:
> Currently, it is possible to configure IFLA_HSR_VERSION, but
> there is no way to check in userspace what the currently
> configured HSR protocol version is.
> 
> Add it to the output of hsr_fill_info().

Thanks Jan,

I agree that exposing the version to user-space makes sense
if it can be configured from user-space.

But I also think it would be useful to provide a brief example
of using this feature in the commit message. E.g. an ip command.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Vaclav <jvaclav@...hat.com>

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