netdev - Re: [patch net-next-2.6] bonding: allow resetting slave failure counters

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Message-Id: <20110601.120300.130602301077156524.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:03:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fubar@...ibm.com
Cc:	jpirko@...hat.com, fbl@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	andy@...yhouse.net
Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6] bonding: allow resetting slave failure
 counters

From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:13:39 -0700

> 	The "this dingus was added in version X.Y.Z" is there because
> users sometimes read the most recent version of the documentation (that
> they get from the internet) and then would become confused when their
> older distro driver lacked some option described in the documentation.

I disagree with this whole concept, because distros backport features
like this into their kernel and therefore the feature is showing up in
version X.Y.$(Z-20).

And distro kernels are what %99.9999 of users are exposed to.

Therefore, I think this version specification is not only pointless
but even a possible cause of confusion.

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