From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Report link speed only when possible Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:03:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20140613.130350.1729507484821351177.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20140606085733.GJ2984@minipsycho.orion> <20140606.125447.1665616708152334692.davem@davemloft.net> <539AC237.40402@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jiri@resnulli.us, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: mprivozn@redhat.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <539AC237.40402@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Michal Privoznik 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.