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From: Amir Vadai <amir@vadai.me>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2 0/3] net/sched: act_pedit: Use offset
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Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 10:46:24 +0200
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On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 08:51:09PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Amir Vadai <amir@vadai.me>
> Date: Thu,  5 Jan 2017 11:54:51 +0200
> 
> > Enhancing the UAPI to allow for specifying that would allow the same
> > flows to be set into both SW and HW.
> 
> This is actually not backward compatible.
> 
> When pedit rules are dumped, older tools will not know about the
> type field and therefore will completely misinterpret the rule.
> 
> You must extend this the proper way, which is to add a new attribute
> or something along those lines.  The presense of a new attribute
> is an explicit communication to older tools that somethng they
> might not support and understand is going on.

Sorry, I missed this scenario. Going back to the drawing board.