netdev - Re: [PATCH 09/10] net: remove /sys/class/net/*/features

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Message-ID: <20110713181657.7ee907a1@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:16:57 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] net: remove /sys/class/net/*/features

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:03:59 +0100
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 17:50 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:10:30 +0200 (CEST)
> > Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl> wrote:
> > 
> > > The same information and more can be obtained by using ethtool
> > > with ETHTOOL_GFEATURES.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
> > 
> > Changing user visible API has to go through a longer process
> > such as putting it in feature-removal-schedule.txt for a while
> > (at couple of releases) before removing.
> 
> We already established that this ABI has been changed repeatedly by
> renumbering of features.

Ok, but we still should have maintained compatibly with mapping.
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