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

[Michal Privoznik]

On 16.06.2014 10:11, David Miller wrote:
> From: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:32:35 +0200
>
> > On 13.06.2014 22:03, David Miller wrote:
> > > From: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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.

That's why every distribution out there has a mechanism to install 
packages of a certain version, or those providing certain symbol, 
whatever. Or distributions can then backport some kernel patches or 
something. But, that's completely unrelated to the problem I'm fixing 
here. I don't think this bikeshedding is useful for anything, sorry.

Michal
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