Subject: Re: PATCH WAS( Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 v2.6.25

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:08:37 -0700

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:59:11 -0400
jamal <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-17-04 at 13:46 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> > The raw flag already existed and humans are the main users.
> 
> My scripts dont count as humans ;->
> "raw" was not intepreted for the output on u32. Your patch changed the
> semantics when you added what amounts to a cooked mode. 
> I think changing old standing outputs should be treated in the same
> spirit as existing ABIs. Was this ever posted somewhere - I apologize if
> the discussion already happened.
> 
> cheers,
> jamal
> 

By that logic no program output would ever change.