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SubjectRe: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC v2 2/6] batman-adv: Rename batman-adv.h to batadv_genl.h
On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 6:48 AM, Sven Eckelmann
<sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com> wrote:
> On Freitag, 15. Dezember 2017 11:32:05 CET Sven Eckelmann wrote:
>> On Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2017 11:58:14 CET Willem de Bruijn wrote:
>> [...]
>> > >> > ---
>> > >> > 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.
>> > >
>> > > I am not aware of any application because all (alfred, batctl and some gluon
>> > > integration) of them currently ship their own copy because distribution didn't
>> > > catch up. And this is also the reason why I want to do it now - not later.
>> >
>> > That assumes that you know all applications, including those not
>> > publicly available. It may be true in this instance, but it is not
>> > possible to be certain.
>>
>> I've just talked with Simon. Because you have a problem with these two
>> changes, he suggested that I should drop these two patches and merge packet.h
>> with the uapi batadv genl header batman_adv.h
>
> No, this is also bad because batman_adv.h is MIT license and packet.h is
> GPL-2. So what other name would you suggest for packet.h? batman_adv_packet.h?

Sure, that sounds great. Thanks.

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