Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752234Ab2KEGom (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2012 01:44:42 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:43214 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751285Ab2KEGok (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2012 01:44:40 -0500 Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 01:44:37 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20121105.014437.768714358664336963.davem@davemloft.net> To: cardoe@cardoe.com Cc: kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] vlan: set sysfs device_type to 'vlan' From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20121105.005343.973313737817968846.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 666 Lines: 15 From: Doug Goldstein Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 00:19:19 -0600 > By this argument we shouldn't ever improve any API or add new syscalls > since we'll have to have fallback code to handle the old interfaces > when the new ones aren't available. It makes sense to add new APIs when existing mechanisms are too difficult _AND_ code doesn't already exist that works reasonable well with existing facilities. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/