From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mschmidt@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, stephen@networkplumber.org,
alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, michael.riesch@omicron.at,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 < v3.9.0
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 11:22:17 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140612.112217.526220278608582600.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <538DBDB3.7030505@redhat.com>
From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:21:07 +0200
> the old version of the userspace tool did what it had to do in order to
> work with a contemporary kernel. You can call that a bug, but the fact
> is that it used to work that way.
>
> I do not see a difference between "catering to a user tool bug" and
> "not breaking applications, whether we like them or not" (paraphrasing
> Linus's message on this very mailing list just 10 days ago).
I applied your patch and queued it up for -stable, thanks for persevering :)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-12 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-28 12:15 [PATCH net] rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 < v3.9.0 Michal Schmidt
2014-05-31 0:42 ` David Miller
2014-06-03 12:21 ` Michal Schmidt
2014-06-12 14:13 ` Michal Schmidt
2014-06-12 17:43 ` David Miller
2014-06-12 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-06-12 17:47 ` David Miller
2014-06-12 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-06-12 18:22 ` David Miller [this message]
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