netdev - Re: [PATCH] net-netlink: Add a new attribute to expose TCLASS values via netlink

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Message-ID: <CANP3RGftp4992SgoqW04tZwCuo4_mQcJ26qr=Op30rkyt5NWOw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 7 Nov 2011 16:29:06 -0800
From:	Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Murali Raja <muralira@...gle.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-netlink: Add a new attribute to expose TCLASS values
 via netlink

> Do we really want to continue to expose that as a supported
> API. I would argue it was a mistake in the original implementation.

Yes, that's an interesting question...

However, can this be changed at this point in time?

Theoretically network fabric hardware could interpret v4 and v6 dscp
code points differently
(don't think anyone sane would do really want to do this though...)
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