On Thu, 1 Sep 2022 09:38:35 +0300 Leon Romanovsky wrote: > There is no such thing like experimental UAPI. Once you put something > in UAPI headers and/or allowed users to issue calls from userspace > to kernel, they can use it. We don't control how users compile their > kernels. > > So it is not break "experimental commands", but break commands that > maybe shouldn't exist in first place. > > nl802154 code suffers from two basic mistakes: > 1. User visible defines are not part of UAPI headers. For example, > include/net/nl802154.h should be in include/uapi/net/.... > 2. Used Kconfig option for pseudo-UAPI header. > > In this specific case, I checked that Fedora didn't enable this > CONFIG_IEEE802154_NL802154_EXPERIMENTAL knob, but someone needs > to check debian and other distros too. > > Most likely it is not used at all. You're right, FWIW. I didn't want to get sidetracked into that before we fix the immediate build issue. It's not the only family playing uAPI games :(
