From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net] rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 < v3.9.0 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 11:22:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20140612.112217.526220278608582600.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1401279319-29088-1-git-send-email-mschmidt@redhat.com> <20140530.174248.715408523447246496.davem@davemloft.net> <538DBDB3.7030505@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, stephen@networkplumber.org, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, michael.riesch@omicron.at, torvalds@linux-foundation.org To: mschmidt@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:53495 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750716AbaFLSWS (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:22:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <538DBDB3.7030505@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Michal Schmidt 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 :)