netdev - Re: [net-next 0/2][pull request] 40GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2018-05-18

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Date:   Sat, 19 May 2018 23:04:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
        jogreene@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 0/2][pull request] 40GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver
 Updates 2018-05-18

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 09:59:45 -0700

> Mitch shortens the ethtool link settings API function names to help
> reduce the amount of line wrapping done in the drivers, and also to make
> the ethtool link settings API functions less windows like (i.e. function
> names that are full sentences).  Since we do not have all the hardware
> available from all the other vendors, we did only compile testing for
> most of the non-Intel drivers.

This is so much churn, which is going to cause -stable backport pains.

The time to bike shed interface names is not after hundreds of drivers
have been converted to use them, but rather beforehand.

Sorry, I'm very much not inclined to apply this.

Thanks.