From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Flavio Leitner Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6] bonding: allow resetting slave failure counters Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:22:40 -0300 Message-ID: <4DE69F90.908@redhat.com> References: <16056.1306944819@death> <20110601.120300.130602301077156524.davem@davemloft.net> <4DE68ECB.70802@redhat.com> <20110601.122240.1431839726613846748.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: fubar@us.ibm.com, jpirko@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, andy@greyhouse.net To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:13408 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753128Ab1FAUWq (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:22:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110601.122240.1431839726613846748.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/01/2011 04:22 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Flavio Leitner > Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:11:07 -0300 > >> 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 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. > > So how is the user going to find that FC14 has the feature even > though his FC13 kernel does not? > > I'll say it again, this version stuff is completely pointless. > > If the user is dabbling with upstream kernels he's a minority, > and clueful enough to figure out this stuff himself. If the distro's bonding version is updated accordingly then you have something to compare. Anyway, I agree that it seems more confusing than helpful. fbl