Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Report link speed only when possible

From: Michal Privoznik <redacted>
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.

I don't think this is the right tradeoff at all.