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Message-Id: <1169176280.1118.8.camel@ras> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:11:19 +1000 From: Russell Stuart <russell-tcatm@...art.id.au> To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> Cc: hadi@...erus.ca, netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH REPOST 1/2] NET: Accurate packet scheduling for ATM/ADSL (kernel) On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 12:37 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote: > > Or are you proposing tc behave differently on different > > kernel versions. (I have no problem with that, but > > isn't it officially frowned upon?) > > Yes. There is no way you can make this work on old kernels, > nobody expects that. The important part is that everything > continues to work as before and that both old and new iproute > binaries work properly on both old and new kernels (new > iproute on old kernels without STABs obviously). I thought that some degree of compatibility was expected. At the very least the newest version of "tc" must work on _any_ kernel as least as well as the version it replaces did. I also though newer kernels should work older version of iproute2, albeit without the features added in the newer versions. Are you saying this is not so? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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