[rds-devel] [PATCH v3 net-next 3/3] rds: Extend RDS API for IPv6 support

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Fri Jul 13 16:27:03 PDT 2018


From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:00:59 -0700

> Ofcourse any application built using upstream header and
> using SO_RDS_TRANSPORT will break but since this particular
> option was added for special case(application wants to
> upfront select transport instead letting bind figure it out),
> our hope its not used by other application(s).

We can't let people have different UAPIs from upstream on a whim like
this then change the already released upstream UAPI to match.

Please take this into consideration when making changes in the future.

I'm not allowing this upstream UAPI break, sorry.



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