From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [iproute2 1/1] RFC: obsolete direct invocation of police Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 10:01:32 -0700 Message-ID: <20141006100132.032e75bc@urahara> References: <1412595960-7862-1-git-send-email-jhs@emojatatu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, john.r.fastabend@intel.com To: Jamal Hadi Salim Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f172.google.com ([209.85.192.172]:37777 "EHLO mail-pd0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753014AbaJFRBp (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2014 13:01:45 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f172.google.com with SMTP id ft15so3606934pdb.3 for ; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 10:01:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1412595960-7862-1-git-send-email-jhs@emojatatu.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 07:46:00 -0400 Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: > From: Jamal Hadi Salim > > I realize this may be controversial. I dont think people are still using > the 1990s syntax anymore. This is one way to test it. > We want to eventually phase out the kernel hacks for backward compat. > > Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim I think iproute utilities needs to accept the old syntax and warn about deprecated syntax use. Later (like 2yr +) the code can be removed. The old syntax can be removed from all documentation and help messages now though.