From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Russell Stuart <russell-tcatm@stuart.id.au>
Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH REPOST 1/2] NET: Accurate packet scheduling for ATM/ADSL (kernel)
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:19:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B0B744.7070800@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1169176280.1118.8.camel@ras>
Russell Stuart wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 12:37 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
>>>Or are you proposing tc behave differently on different
>>>kernel versions. (I have no problem with that, but
>>>isn't it officially frowned upon?)
>>
>>Yes. There is no way you can make this work on old kernels,
>>nobody expects that. The important part is that everything
>>continues to work as before and that both old and new iproute
>>binaries work properly on both old and new kernels (new
>>iproute on old kernels without STABs obviously).
>
>
> I thought that some degree of compatibility was
> expected. At the very least the newest version
> of "tc" must work on _any_ kernel as least as
> well as the version it replaces did.
>
> I also though newer kernels should work older
> version of iproute2, albeit without the features
> added in the newer versions.
>
> Are you saying this is not so?
No, thats exactly what I'm saying.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-19 12:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-16 23:34 [PATCH REPOST 1/2] NET: Accurate packet scheduling for ATM/ADSL (kernel) Russell Stuart
2006-10-17 13:07 ` jamal
2006-10-19 3:41 ` David Miller
2006-10-19 14:38 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-10-20 0:49 ` jamal
2006-10-20 8:54 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-10-23 11:22 ` Russell Stuart
2006-10-23 12:39 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-10-23 21:54 ` Russell Stuart
2006-10-24 16:19 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-10-24 20:00 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2006-10-24 23:46 ` Russell Stuart
2006-11-30 13:07 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-01-17 23:07 ` Russell Stuart
2007-01-18 4:05 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-01-18 6:16 ` Russell Stuart
[not found] ` <45AF5C02.1010005@trash.net>
2007-01-19 3:11 ` Russell Stuart
2007-01-19 12:19 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2007-01-20 3:25 ` Russell Stuart
2007-01-20 8:47 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-01-21 7:45 ` Russell Stuart
2007-01-24 16:38 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-01-24 22:32 ` Russell Stuart
2007-01-25 0:06 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-01-25 0:55 ` Russell Stuart
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