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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: tgraf@suug.ch
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, kaber@trash.net,
	Stephane_Chazelas@yahoo.fr, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: neighbour table ABI problem
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:03:27 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080603.160327.105786253.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080522002042.GO20815@postel.suug.ch>

From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 02:20:42 +0200

> * David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 2008-05-21 13:35
> > From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> > Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:40:19 -0700
> > 
> > > This change is small, but it breaks the ABI for older version of iproute2 utilities.
> > > But these utilities are already broken since they are looking at the psched_hz values
> > > which are completely different. So let's just go ahead and fix both kernel and user
> > > space. Older utilities will just print wrong values.
> > > 
> > 
> > Can we add a new attribute or something like that?
> 
> We could do but I agree with Stephen to just fix it the way he
> proposes. The value we're talking is only useful in a debugging
> or statistical context. We're not changing the format of the
> attribute at all, not even the unit, srictly speaking.

Fair enough, I've applied Stephen's patch.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-03 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-21 16:38 [iproute2] get_hz() with CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS Stephane Chazelas
2008-05-21 16:56 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-21 17:40   ` [PATCH] net: neighbour table ABI problem Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-21 20:35     ` David Miller
2008-05-22  0:20       ` Thomas Graf
2008-06-03 23:03         ` David Miller [this message]
2008-05-21 17:10 ` [iproute2] get_hz() with CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-21 18:43   ` route metrics in jiffies?? Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-21 20:31     ` David Miller
2008-05-22 10:36     ` rtt metric only for incoming connections? Stephane Chazelas
2008-05-27 18:43       ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-27 18:53         ` Rick Jones

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