On Thu, 2008-17-04 at 13:46 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

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> The raw flag already existed and humans are the main users.

My scripts dont count as humans ;->
"raw" was not intepreted for the output on u32. Your patch changed the
semantics when you added what amounts to a cooked mode. 
I think changing old standing outputs should be treated in the same
spirit as existing ABIs. Was this ever posted somewhere - I apologize if
the discussion already happened.

cheers,
jamal

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