Re: net-next-2.6 status...

From: Thomas Graf <redacted>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:47:39 -0400

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 09:40:23AM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:

quoted

quoted

What do you suggest? To remove unused flags and leave gaps there or to
not to remove the flags at all?

Well, the following comment:
<quote>
/* Private (from user) interface flags (netdevice->priv_flags). */
</quote>
leads me to think that these flags should not be used by userspace.
So maybe it may not be problem to change those values.

These flags should be moved to linux/netdevice.h

We've had them exposed in a header file without __KERNEL__ protection
for a long time, the cat is therefore out of the bag and it's too late
to just remove them from user visibility as if they were not there.
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