From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: PATCH WAS( Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 v2.6.25 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:59:11 -0400 Message-ID: <1208465951.15888.33.camel@localhost> References: <20080417103858.0075236b@extreme> <1208464539.15888.22.camel@localhost> <20080417134656.761748d4@extreme> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.244]:3615 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753077AbYDQU7Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:59:16 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d31so57852and.103 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:59:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080417134656.761748d4@extreme> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2008-17-04 at 13:46 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > The raw flag already existed and humans are the main users. My scripts dont count as humans ;-> "raw" was not intepreted for the output on u32. Your patch changed the semantics when you added what amounts to a cooked mode. I think changing old standing outputs should be treated in the same spirit as existing ABIs. Was this ever posted somewhere - I apologize if the discussion already happened. cheers, jamal