Re: [net-next-2.6 V7 PATCH 1/2] Add netlink support for virtual port management (was iovnl)

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Chris Wright wrote:
> * Patrick McHardy (kaber@trash.net) wrote:
>> Scott Feldman wrote:
>>> On 5/14/10 10:29 AM, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I think we should redo the other IFLA_VF_xxx msgs in the same style.  I'm
>>>>> not going to tackle that for IFLA_VF_PORTS patch, but it would be a good
>>>>> followup patch.
>>>> I fear it's too late for that now. While we have not yet released 2.6.34
>>>> and 2.6.33 does not contain the broken message, it's extremely late in the
>>>> stabilization phase of v2.6.34, so I doubt that there is still a chance for
>>>> that at this point.
>>> That's too bad.  I wish Patrick's objections were honored and then we
>>> wouldn't have followed that broken model!  Can the broken msgs be disabled
>>> somehow for 2.6.34?  Keep the definitions in if_link.h but fail the SET/GET
>>> actions in rtnetlink.c?
>> That would be a possibility. Unfortunately I don't think we can fix
>> this in a backwards compatible way.
> 
> $ git describe --contains ebc08a6f47ee76ecad8e9f26c26e6ec9b46ca659
> v2.6.34-rc1~233^2~336
> 
> It's not released yet?

Correct, it was added in 2.6.34-rc.