Re: [RFC v2 2/6] batman-adv: Rename batman-adv.h to batadv_genl.h

From: Willem de Bruijn
Date: Wed Dec 06 2017 - 11:43:27 EST


On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Sven Eckelmann
<sven.eckelmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This file contains the relevant information to let userspace communicate
> with batman-adv over generic netlink. The relevant genl enums for the
> attributes and commands have the prefix batadv_genl. Renaming this file to
> this name therefore represents the content better and avoids confusion with
> the file which will contain the packet format definitions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
> include/uapi/linux/{batman_adv.h => batadv_genl.h} | 6 +++---

This and the previous patch changes uapi. That might break userspace
applications that rely on it.