Re: [RFC PATCH 4.4] Documentation/network: reword kernel version reference

[Sasha Levin]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 08:19:55AM -0800, Mark Rustad wrote:
> It seemed odd to say "since 4.17" in a 4.4 kernel. Consider
> rewording the reference to indicate where in the stable series
> it was introduced as well as where it originated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mrustad@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> Does this brief elaboration add useful information? It seems to
> me that someone using a particular series of stable kernels would
> find this information to be helpful or at least potentially less
> confusing to a non-developer.
> ---
> Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt |    2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
> index 7c229f59016f..2fb35658d151 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
> @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ ipfrag_high_thresh - LONG INTEGER
> 	Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments.
>
> ipfrag_low_thresh - LONG INTEGER
> -	(Obsolete since linux-4.17)
> +	(Obsolete since linux-4.4.174, backported from linux-4.17)
> 	Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments before the kernel
> 	begins to remove incomplete fragment queues to free up resources.
> 	The kernel still accepts new fragments for defragmentation.

Admittingly the stabke kernel rules do not allow documentation fixes,
but I can see how this can be confusing, and the fact that someone
actually hit it, wrote a patch and submitted it makes me want to ignore
that rule.

Queued, thank you!

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Thanks,
Sasha