05/07/2017 19:58, Stephen Hemminger: > In order to support VMBUS, the ethernet device name needs to be increased. > What would be good timing; vmbus support will be in 17.11. > Either break ABI now, and vmbus won't have to do it later. > Or wait and make it part of of VMBUS patches?
Please send a deprecation notice for 17.08, and wait 17.11 to change it while introducing VMBUS. Thanks