Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH 1/8] rtnl: use ifinfomsg instead of rtgenmsg to request link info

[Jiri B. <jb...@re...>]

On Mon, 3 Jul 2017 09:12:46 +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> We can even call uname(2) to check the kernel version when bonding is
> requested in the configuration.

Please don't do that. Always check for the feature being present, never
for a kernel version. It's common for various groups to backport newer
features to older kernels; kernel version alone does not indicate
anything.

Thanks,

 Jiri