From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: RFC/PATCH capture qdisc requeue event in stats Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:29:10 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040830212910.78047bcd.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1093799632.1073.410.camel@jzny.localdomain> <20040830144033.2265a6e6.davem@redhat.com> <1093904088.1043.12.camel@jzny.localdomain> <20040830154430.769d1d59.davem@redhat.com> <1093906592.1037.32.camel@jzny.localdomain> <20040830160052.548c4846.davem@redhat.com> <1093916592.1037.51.camel@jzny.localdomain> <20040830191716.0d002f91.davem@redhat.com> <1093919823.1043.80.camel@jzny.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, shemminger@osdl.org Return-path: To: hadi@cyberus.ca In-Reply-To: <1093919823.1043.80.camel@jzny.localdomain> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 30 Aug 2004 22:37:03 -0400 jamal wrote: > thmart. Lets go with this then. Steve, do you wanna take it from here > with the iproute2 patch i sent or you want me to generate a new one? Now > how do we tell all other people who have written netlink apps > to beware? Yeah, how are you going to "tell those other people"? And how are you going to get every user to know to upgrade all of those apps when they try to use a kernel with your patch applied? Look, let's get real about this topic. We can't be breaking shit like this all the time. We're nearly letting it happen a lot lately. These data structures are user visible APIs, they are just like system call data structures, and if we cannot modify them without potentially breaking some existing application we cannot make that change. So please find another way to add make this statistic visible to userspace Jamal. Thanks a lot.