On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 08:51:09PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Amir Vadai <a...@vadai.me> > Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 11:54:51 +0200 > > > 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.
