netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 V7 PATCH 1/2] Add netlink support for virtual port management (was iovnl)

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Date:	Fri, 14 May 2010 20:46:29 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...hat.com>
CC:	Scott Feldman <scofeldm@...co.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 V7 PATCH 1/2] Add netlink support for virtual port
 management (was iovnl)

Chris Wright wrote:
> * Patrick McHardy (kaber@...sh.net) wrote:
>> Scott Feldman wrote:
>>> On 5/14/10 10:29 AM, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I think we should redo the other IFLA_VF_xxx msgs in the same style.  I'm
>>>>> not going to tackle that for IFLA_VF_PORTS patch, but it would be a good
>>>>> followup patch.
>>>> I fear it's too late for that now. While we have not yet released 2.6.34
>>>> and 2.6.33 does not contain the broken message, it's extremely late in the
>>>> stabilization phase of v2.6.34, so I doubt that there is still a chance for
>>>> that at this point.
>>> That's too bad.  I wish Patrick's objections were honored and then we
>>> wouldn't have followed that broken model!  Can the broken msgs be disabled
>>> somehow for 2.6.34?  Keep the definitions in if_link.h but fail the SET/GET
>>> actions in rtnetlink.c?
>> That would be a possibility. Unfortunately I don't think we can fix
>> this in a backwards compatible way.
> 
> $ git describe --contains ebc08a6f47ee76ecad8e9f26c26e6ec9b46ca659
> v2.6.34-rc1~233^2~336
> 
> It's not released yet?

Correct, it was added in 2.6.34-rc.
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