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

From: Michal Privoznik <redacted>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:32:35 +0200

On 13.06.2014 22:03, David Miller wrote:

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From: Michal Privoznik <redacted>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:19:51 +0200

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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.

Because %99 of users are using a distribution kernel which is definitely
going to be pre-3.16 for years.