From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: "Michał Mirosław" <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] net: remove /sys/class/net/*/features
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:16:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110713181657.7ee907a1@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310605439.2756.17.camel@bwh-desktop>
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:03:59 +0100
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 17:50 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:10:30 +0200 (CEST)
> > Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> wrote:
> >
> > > The same information and more can be obtained by using ethtool
> > > with ETHTOOL_GFEATURES.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <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.
>
> We already established that this ABI has been changed repeatedly by
> renumbering of features.
Ok, but we still should have maintained compatibly with mapping.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-14 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-14 0:10 [PATCH 00/10] net: random cleanups Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 0:10 ` [PATCH 03/10] net: vlan: remove reduntant check in ndo_fix_features callback Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 21:39 ` David Miller
2011-07-14 0:10 ` [PATCH 07/10] net: remove NETIF_F_NO_CSUM feature Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 0:23 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-07-14 0:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-07-14 0:59 ` Ben Hutchings
[not found] ` <CA+mtBx9GXf_+DGB4EabS74Hf+16KKJ78Ty_zK6Y3tC+X634jtA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-07-14 20:56 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 21:31 ` David Miller
2011-07-14 22:44 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-07-15 0:05 ` David Miller
2011-07-15 0:28 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 21:00 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 0:10 ` [PATCH 05/10] net: Disable NOCACHE_COPY by default Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 0:44 ` Tom Herbert
2011-07-14 0:10 ` [PATCH 04/10] net: cleanup vlan_features setting in register_netdev Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 21:41 ` David Miller
2011-07-14 0:10 ` [PATCH 01/10] net: sctp: fix checksum marking for outgoing packets Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 21:37 ` David Miller
2011-07-14 0:10 ` [PATCH 06/10] net: remove NETIF_F_ALL_TX_OFFLOADS Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 21:43 ` David Miller
2011-07-14 21:54 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 21:58 ` David Miller
2011-07-14 22:34 ` [PATCH 1/1 net] net: fix bonding advertising offloads it can't support Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 22:37 ` David Miller
2011-07-14 0:10 ` [PATCH 02/10] net: m68k/nfeth: Remove wrong usage of dev->flags Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 21:38 ` David Miller
2011-07-14 0:10 ` [PATCH 08/10] net: unexport netdev_fix_features() Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 21:44 ` David Miller
2011-07-14 0:10 ` [PATCH 10/10] net: remove SK_ROUTE_CAPS from meta ematch Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 0:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-07-14 0:59 ` jamal
2011-07-14 20:50 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 20:52 ` David Miller
2011-07-14 21:46 ` David Miller
2011-07-14 0:10 ` [PATCH 09/10] net: remove /sys/class/net/*/features Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 0:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-07-14 1:03 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-07-14 1:16 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-07-14 20:46 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-07-14 21:45 ` David Miller
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