On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 01:42:44PM +0100, Andreas Schultz wrote:
It is definitely not acceptable to break the existing API.
The specific use case of the API that is no longer supported was never used by anyone. [...]
Yes, this was used openggsn and I tested this with a full blown FOSS setup. Yes, a toy thing compared to the proprietary equipment you deal with, but we always started with things like this.
The only supported and documented API for the GTP module is libgtpnl.
No, the netlink interface itself if the API.
Stopping trying to find a reason to break API, that is a no-go.