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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mprivozn@redhat.com
Cc: jiri@resnulli.us, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Report link speed only when possible
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:03:50 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140613.130350.1729507484821351177.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <539AC237.40402@redhat.com>

From: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:19:51 +0200

> So if I were developing brand new application I could say: I'm
> dropping all this workaround code and have it clean and require say
> 3.16 kernel at least.

Then your application wouldn't be usable on %99 of systems for a long
long time.

I don't think this is the right tradeoff at all.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-13 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-06  8:40 [PATCH] net-sysfs: Report link speed only when possible Michal Privoznik
2014-06-06  8:57 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-06-06 19:54   ` David Miller
2014-06-13  9:19     ` Michal Privoznik
2014-06-13 20:03       ` David Miller [this message]
2014-06-16  7:32         ` Michal Privoznik
2014-06-16  8:11           ` David Miller
2014-06-16  8:30             ` Michal Privoznik
2014-06-16  8:44               ` David Miller
2014-06-16  8:59                 ` Michal Privoznik
2014-06-16  9:01                 ` Jiri Pirko

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