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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rate should be u64 to avoid integer overflow at high
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On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 20:53 -0800, Vimal wrote:
> Ok, do you have suggestions on how to do this?  Maybe a better way to
> do this would be to introduce an additional "multipler" option for
> rates, which is set to 1 as default, so actual rate can be computed as
> multipler * rate supplied.

How an old program, in binary form, will automatically knows it has to
change its behavior to use an inexistent field ?

I can use an old distro, and update kernel to upstream kernel, it must
continue to work.