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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:19:16 +0100 From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> To: Russell Stuart <russell-tcatm@...art.id.au> 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) Russell Stuart wrote: > 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? No, thats exactly what I'm saying. - 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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