Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:32:35 +0200 | From | Michal Privoznik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Report link speed only when possible |
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On 13.06.2014 22:03, David Miller wrote: > From: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> > 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. Or until the time a new regression is introduced and fix is rejected. Speaking of which - long long time applications *are* broken now. This patch is combining the good from both worlds: old applications are fixed, new applications doesn't have to learn anything new.
> I don't think this is the right tradeoff at all. >
Neither is keeping things broken.
Michal
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