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

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Message-ID: <4DE69455.3080203@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:34:45 +0200
From:	Nicolas de Pesloüan 
	<nicolas.2p.debian@...il.com>
To:	Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, fubar@...ibm.com,
	jpirko@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, andy@...yhouse.net
Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6] bonding: allow resetting slave failure counters

Le 01/06/2011 21:11, Flavio Leitner a écrit :
> On 06/01/2011 04:03 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> 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).
>
> It doesn't matter the version if the user can find the feature, so
> distros backporting features works and that info is not useful at all.
> However, when the user doesn't find the feature and search the internet,
> then that info is helpful.

There are *many* new features that get included into the kernel without documenting the exact first 
version that provide them. Why should we need this for bonding? Also, because we lack a table that 
gives the kernel version matching a bonding version, the user is not really helped by "you need 
version X.Y.Z of bonding to have this feature".

So, I'm not sure it helps...

	Nicolas.
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