Re: [patch net-next-2.6] bonding: allow resetting slave failure counters

Le 01/06/2011 21:11, Flavio Leitner a écrit :

On 06/01/2011 04:03 PM, David Miller wrote:

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From: Jay Vosburgh<redacted>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:13:39 -0700

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	The "this dingus was added in version X.Y.Z" is there because
users sometimes read the most recent version of the documentation (that
they get from the internet) and then would become confused when their
older distro driver lacked some option described in the documentation.

I disagree with this whole concept, because distros backport features
like this into their kernel and therefore the feature is showing up in
version X.Y.$(Z-20).

It doesn't matter the version if the user can find the feature, so
distros backporting features works and that info is not useful at all.
However, when the user doesn't find the feature and search the internet,
then that info is helpful.

There are *many* new features that get included into the kernel without documenting the exact first 
version that provide them. Why should we need this for bonding? Also, because we lack a table that 
gives the kernel version matching a bonding version, the user is not really helped by "you need 
version X.Y.Z of bonding to have this feature".

So, I'm not sure it helps...

	Nicolas.