Re: RFC/PATCH capture qdisc requeue event in stats

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 00:29, David S. Miller wrote:
> On 30 Aug 2004 22:37:03 -0400
> jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > thmart. Lets go with this then. Steve, do you wanna take it from here
> > with the iproute2 patch i sent or you want me to generate a new one? Now
> > how do we tell all other people who have written netlink apps
> > to beware?
> 
> Yeah, how are you going to "tell those other people"?  And how
> are you going to get every user to know to upgrade all of those
> apps when they try to use a kernel with your patch applied?


Again, thats not an issue. new kernel. old app should work
Challenge is old kernel, new app.

> Look, let's get real about this topic.  We can't be breaking shit
> like this all the time.  We're nearly letting it happen a lot
> lately.

Agreed.

> These data structures are user visible APIs, they are just like
> system call data structures, and if we cannot modify
> them without potentially breaking some existing application we
> cannot make that change.
> 
> So please find another way to add make this statistic visible to
> userspace Jamal.  Thanks a lot.

Well, Franks A Lot(TM) Dave ;->
Let me rethink - I will be back.

cheers,
jamal