From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] net: remove /sys/class/net/*/features Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:03:59 +0100 Message-ID: <1310605439.2756.17.camel@bwh-desktop> References: <20110713175037.7cbf772a@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_Miros=C5=82aw?= , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from exchange.solarflare.com ([216.237.3.220]:10191 "EHLO exchange.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751204Ab1GNBEC convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:04:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110713175037.7cbf772a@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 17:50 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:10:30 +0200 (CEST) > Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw wrote: >=20 > > The same information and more can be obtained by using ethtool > > with ETHTOOL_GFEATURES. > >=20 > > Signed-off-by: Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw >=20 > Changing user visible API has to go through a longer process > such as putting it in feature-removal-schedule.txt for a while > (at couple of releases) before removing. We already established that this ABI has been changed repeatedly by renumbering of features. Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.