netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ethtool: do not print warning for applications using legacy API

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Date:   Tue, 02 Jan 2018 21:50:02 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc:     decot@...glers.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ethtool: do not print warning for applications
 using legacy API

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 10:02:52 -0800

> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
> 
> In kernel log ths message appears on every boot:
>  "warning: `NetworkChangeNo' uses legacy ethtool link settings API,
>   link modes are only partially reported"
> 
> When ethtool link settings API changed, it started complaining about
> usages of old API. Ironically, the original patch was from google but
> the application using the legacy API is chrome.

Chrome on my machine doesn't do this, FWIW...

> Linux ABI is fixed as much as possible. The kernel must not break it
> and should not complain about applications using legacy API's.
> This patch just removes the warning since using legacy API's
> in Linux is perfectly acceptable.
> 
> Fixes: 3f1ac7a700d0 ("net: ethtool: add new ETHTOOL_xLINKSETTINGS API")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>

Applied and queued up for -stable.