On Monday 19 November 2012 19:40:18 Ben Hutchings wrote: [...]
I do hope that you're not planning to use unstable debugfs interfaces indefinitely.
Why are you refering to the adding of an file as "incompatible" debugfs interface? I would call it additional information. And the rest of the commit message is talking about *possible* protocol incompatibilies of the network protocol (which caused this uncontrolled erruption of anger in a network maintainer).
I didn't say that. But debugfs tends to be exempted from expectations of interface stability or cleanliness (as it's for development, not production... right?). It's also an optional feature that might not be enabled at compile time or run-time. If BATMAN is ever going to be ready for general use it will need stable interfaces that are updated in a backward-compatible way and don't depend on debugfs.
Ok, I thought this file was meant for an optional developer information (the interface to work with batman-adv is in /sys) and concluded too fast that you are questioning this change because it makes something "unstable" (sry, for using the wrong term before).
Thanks, Sven