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

On 06/01/2011 04:22 PM, David Miller wrote:

From: Flavio Leitner <redacted>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:11:07 -0300

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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.

So how is the user going to find that FC14 has the feature even
though his FC13 kernel does not?

I'll say it again, this version stuff is completely pointless.

If the user is dabbling with upstream kernels he's a minority,
and clueful enough to figure out this stuff himself.

If the distro's bonding version is updated accordingly then
you have something to compare.  Anyway, I agree that it seems
more confusing than helpful.

fbl