From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] net: remove /sys/class/net/*/features Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:16:57 -0700 Message-ID: <20110713181657.7ee907a1@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> References: <20110713175037.7cbf772a@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> <1310605439.2756.17.camel@bwh-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBNaXJvc8WCYXc=?= , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Ben Hutchings Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:48257 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752977Ab1GNBRB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:17:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1310605439.2756.17.camel@bwh-desktop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:03:59 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > 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. >=20 > We already established that this ABI has been changed repeatedly by > renumbering of features. Ok, but we still should have maintained compatibly with mapping.