netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 15/15] tipc: remove old ASCII netlink API

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Date:	Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:50:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	richard.alpe@...csson.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 15/15] tipc: remove old ASCII netlink API

From: <richard.alpe@...csson.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 16:58:41 +0200

> From: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com>
> 
> The API has been deprecated along with its user-space tool
> "tipc-config". Users shall use the new kernel netlink API already in
> place along with the new user space tool "tipc" that's part of the
> tipc-utils package.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com>
> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@...csson.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>

Sorry, no matter what your circumstances, you cannot just break
binaries that might be out there.

The rest of this patch series is fine, but I'm really not going
to even entertain applying this one, sorry.
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