netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2 2/3] taprio: Allow users not to specify "flags" when changing schedules

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Date:   Wed, 29 Jan 2020 11:12:45 +0100 (CET)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     vinicius.gomes@...el.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jhs@...atatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
        jiri@...nulli.us, vladimir.oltean@....com, po.liu@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 2/3] taprio: Allow users not to specify "flags"
 when changing schedules

From: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:52:26 -0800

> When any offload mode is enabled, users had to specify the
> "flags" parameter when adding a new "admin" schedule.
> 
> This fix allows that parameter to be omitted when adding a new
> schedule.
> 
> This will make that we have one source of truth for 'flags'.
> 
> Fixes: 4cfd5779bd6e ("taprio: Add support for txtime-assist mode")
> Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>
> Acked-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

This will visibly change behavior for a feature in a released
kernel (v5.3 and later) and it means that newer tools will do
things that don't work in older kernels.

I think your opportunity to adjust these semantics, has therefore,
long passed.

Sorry.