netdev - Re: [iproute2 1/1] RFC: obsolete direct invocation of police

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Message-ID: <20141006100132.032e75bc@urahara>
Date:	Mon, 6 Oct 2014 10:01:32 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
	john.r.fastabend@...el.com
Subject: Re: [iproute2 1/1] RFC: obsolete direct invocation of police

On Mon,  6 Oct 2014 07:46:00 -0400
Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com> wrote:

> From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
> 
> I realize this may be controversial. I dont think people are still using
> the 1990s syntax anymore. This is one way to test it.
> We want to eventually phase out the kernel hacks for backward compat.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>

I think iproute utilities needs to accept the old syntax and warn about
deprecated syntax use. Later (like 2yr +) the code can be removed.

The old syntax can be removed from all documentation and help messages
now though.
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