From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754301AbaFPILw (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2014 04:11:52 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:44981 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752447AbaFPILv (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2014 04:11:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 01:11:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20140616.011148.2001285440663327901.davem@davemloft.net> To: mprivozn@redhat.com Cc: jiri@resnulli.us, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Report link speed only when possible From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <539E9D93.9040405@redhat.com> References: <539AC237.40402@redhat.com> <20140613.130350.1729507484821351177.davem@davemloft.net> <539E9D93.9040405@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.7 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Mon, 16 Jun 2014 01:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Michal Privoznik Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:32:35 +0200 > On 13.06.2014 22:03, David Miller wrote: >> From: Michal Privoznik >> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:19:51 +0200 >> >>> So if I were developing brand new application I could say: I'm >>> dropping all this workaround code and have it clean and require say >>> 3.16 kernel at least. >> >> Then your application wouldn't be usable on %99 of systems for a long >> long time. >> > > How come? The application is going to be usable for as long as > library/kernel APIs won't change. Because %99 of users are using a distribution kernel which is definitely going to be pre-3.16 for years.