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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] net: remove /sys/class/net/*/features
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:50:37 -0700
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On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:10:30 +0200 (CEST)
Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> wrote:

> The same information and more can be obtained by using ethtool
> with ETHTOOL_GFEATURES.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>

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.