From: Simon Horman <simon.hor...@netronome.com> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:13:16 +0200
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:20:22AM -0400, David Miller wrote: >> From: Jamal Hadi Salim <j...@mojatatu.com> >> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:42:32 -0400 >> >> > So are we going to standardize these strings? >> >> No. >> >> > i.e what if some user has written a bash script that depends on this >> > string and it gets changed later. >> >> They can't do that. >> >> It's free form extra information an application may or not provide >> to the user when the kernel emits it. > > I don't feel strongly about this and perhaps it can be revisited at some > point but perhaps it would be worth documenting that he strings do not > form part of the UAPI as my expectation would have been that they do f.e. to > facilitate internationalisation. These two things are entirely separate. We can maintain uptodate translations of the strings, yet document that they can change at any time and are thus not UAPI.
