linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Report link speed as signed integer

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Message-Id: <20140602.111050.54996809312556969.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 02 Jun 2014 11:10:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vfalico@...hat.com
Cc:	jiri@...nulli.us, mprivozn@...hat.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Report link speed as signed integer

From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 17:01:50 +0200

> I wonder, though, if we should document it or just output "Unknown"
> instead of -1.

All of this discussion means that we can't change the format string
without potentially breaking something out there interpreting the -1
value, however it gets output now.

I think we just have to leave things as-is and document them in the
sysfs ABI docs.

I'm not applying this patch.
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