From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nicolas_de_Peslo=FCan?= Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6] bonding: allow resetting slave failure counters Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:34:45 +0200 Message-ID: <4DE69455.3080203@gmail.com> References: <4DE63E85.7020508@redhat.com> <20110601135321.GA2909@psychotron.brq.redhat.com> <16056.1306944819@death> <20110601.120300.130602301077156524.davem@davemloft.net> <4DE68ECB.70802@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: David Miller , fubar@us.ibm.com, jpirko@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, andy@greyhouse.net To: Flavio Leitner Return-path: Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:38856 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759171Ab1FATes (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:34:48 -0400 Received: by wya21 with SMTP id 21so102007wya.19 for ; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:34:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4DE68ECB.70802@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le 01/06/2011 21:11, Flavio Leitner a =E9crit : > On 06/01/2011 04:03 PM, David Miller wrote: >> From: Jay Vosburgh >> 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 the= ir >>> older distro driver lacked some option described in the documentati= on. >> >> I disagree with this whole concept, because distros backport feature= s >> 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= =2E > However, when the user doesn't find the feature and search the intern= et, > then that info is helpful. There are *many* new features that get included into the kernel without= documenting the exact first=20 version that provide them. Why should we need this for bonding? Also, b= ecause we lack a table that=20 gives the kernel version matching a bonding version, the user is not re= ally helped by "you need=20 version X.Y.Z of bonding to have this feature". So, I'm not sure it helps... Nicolas.