Re: [PATCH net-next V2 0/3] net/sched: act_pedit: Use offset relative to conventional network headers

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 08:51:09PM -0500, David Miller wrote:

From: Amir Vadai <redacted>
Date: Thu,  5 Jan 2017 11:54:51 +0200

quoted

Enhancing the UAPI to allow for specifying that would allow the same
flows to be set into both SW and HW.

This is actually not backward compatible.

When pedit rules are dumped, older tools will not know about the
type field and therefore will completely misinterpret the rule.

You must extend this the proper way, which is to add a new attribute
or something along those lines.  The presense of a new attribute
is an explicit communication to older tools that somethng they
might not support and understand is going on.

Sorry, I missed this scenario. Going back to the drawing board.