On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:44:16AM -0400, David Miller wrote: > 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.
Thanks, I see that now.
