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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: benve@cisco•com, bhutchings@solarflare•com,
	gregory.v.rose@intel•com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel•com,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, gospo@redhat•com
Subject: Re: [net-next] iproute2: Add new command to IP link to enable/disable VF spoof check
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:19:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110926141959.58d310c0@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110926.170049.1943390151354224651.davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:00:49 -0400 (EDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft•net> wrote:

> From: "Christian Benvenuti (benve)" <benve@cisco•com>
> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:54:53 -0500
> 
> > Does it mean that a Netlink interface becomes official (and backward
> > compatibility should not be broken) only once iproute2 starts
> > supporting it?
> 
> It needs to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.  Sometimes we can quickly
> fix a poorly designed netlink interface is no major tool takes on use of
> the feature.

If an interface changes before an official release, there is no
problem. I.e. if an interface goes through multiple versions while
in net-next (or a bug fix during 3.X-rc*) that's fine.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-26 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-25  8:23 [net-next] iproute2: Add new command to IP link to enable/disable VF spoof check Jeff Kirsher
2011-09-25 17:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-09-26 16:21   ` Rose, Gregory V
2011-09-26 16:41     ` Ben Hutchings
2011-09-26 16:47       ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-09-26 16:58         ` Rose, Gregory V
2011-09-26 20:54         ` Christian Benvenuti (benve)
2011-09-26 21:00           ` David Miller
2011-09-26 21:19             ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-09-26 21:27               ` David Miller
2011-11-17 23:39 ` Greg Rose
2011-11-18  0:40   ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-11-18  0:43     ` Greg Rose
2011-11-18  0:45       ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-11-18 17:06         ` Greg Rose

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