From: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: fubar@us.ibm.com, jpirko@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
andy@greyhouse.net
Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6] bonding: allow resetting slave failure counters
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:11:07 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE68ECB.70802@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110601.120300.130602301077156524.davem@davemloft.net>
On 06/01/2011 04:03 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:13:39 -0700
>
>> The "this dingus was added in version X.Y.Z" is there because
>> users sometimes read the most recent version of the documentation (that
>> they get from the internet) and then would become confused when their
>> older distro driver lacked some option described in the documentation.
>
> I disagree with this whole concept, because distros backport features
> like this into their kernel and therefore the feature is showing up in
> version X.Y.$(Z-20).
It doesn't matter the version if the user can find the feature, so
distros backporting features works and that info is not useful at all.
However, when the user doesn't find the feature and search the internet,
then that info is helpful.
fbl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-01 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-01 9:40 [patch net-next-2.6] bonding: allow resetting slave failure counters Jiri Pirko
2011-06-01 13:28 ` Flavio Leitner
2011-06-01 13:53 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-01 16:13 ` Jay Vosburgh
2011-06-01 16:31 ` [patch net-next-2.6 v2] " Jiri Pirko
2011-06-01 16:41 ` Flavio Leitner
2011-06-01 19:23 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-06-01 20:08 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-01 20:12 ` David Miller
2011-06-01 20:27 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-01 19:03 ` [patch net-next-2.6] " David Miller
2011-06-01 19:11 ` Flavio Leitner [this message]
2011-06-01 19:22 ` David Miller
2011-06-01 19:53 ` Jay Vosburgh
2011-06-01 20:22 ` Flavio Leitner
2011-06-01 19:34 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-06-01 20:07 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-01 13:51 ` WANG Cong
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