Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: openvswitch: fix uAPI incompatibility with existing user space

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
Date: Thu Mar 10 2022 - 23:30:22 EST


Hello:

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

On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 23:20:33 +0100 you wrote:
> Few years ago OVS user space made a strange choice in the commit [1]
> to define types only valid for the user space inside the copy of a
> kernel uAPI header. '#ifndef __KERNEL__' and another attribute was
> added later.
>
> This leads to the inevitable clash between user space and kernel types
> when the kernel uAPI is extended. The issue was unveiled with the
> addition of a new type for IPv6 extension header in kernel uAPI.
>
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
- [net-next,v2] net: openvswitch: fix uAPI incompatibility with existing user space
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/1926407a4ab0

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