netdev - Re: [PATCH] net-next: ethtool: Added port speed macros.

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Date:	Tue, 19 May 2015 12:32:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	parav.pandit@...gotech.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bwh@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-next: ethtool: Added port speed macros.

From: Parav Pandit <parav.pandit@...gotech.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 10:15:49 +0530

> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:16 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>> From: Parav Pandit <parav.pandit@...gotech.com>
>> Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 16:31:47 +0530
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav.pandit@...gotech.com>
>>
>> I thought we had decided that we weren't going to keep adding
>> convenience macros for new speeds, and were simply going to use
>> the appropriate constants in the future.
>>
> 
> I added them to accommodate any speed/PHY interface specific
> configuration to make use of it.
> If convenience macros are not needed, I will provide the code cleanup
> patch to remove existing convenience macros. With that we will have
> unified code for old and new constants.
> I will anyway let Ben comment on it.

You cannot remove the existing macros, because they are exported to
userspace and you'll break application compilation if you do that.
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