linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/10] appletalk: make localtalk and ppp support conditional

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Message-ID: <ZSf4oCBXZGi2BfqC@nanopsycho>
Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:46:08 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org,
        Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@...log.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Rodolfo Zitellini <rwz@...ro.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/10] appletalk: make localtalk and ppp support
 conditional

Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 05:57:38PM CEST, arnd@...db.de wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 11, 2023, at 17:04, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Could you provide a cover letter for the set please?
>
>Subject: [PATCH v2 00/10] remove final .ndo_do_ioctl references
>
>The .ndo_do_ioctl() netdev operation used to be how one communicates
>with a network driver from userspace, but since my previous cleanup [1],
>it is purely internal to the kernel.
>
>Removing the cops appletalk/localtalk driver made me revisit the
>missing pieces from that older series, removing all the unused
>implementations in wireless drivers as well as the two kernel-internal
>callers in the ieee802154 and appletalk stacks.
>
>One ethernet driver was already merged in the meantime that should
>have used .ndo_eth_ioctl instead of .ndo_do_ioctl, so fix that as well.
>With the complete removal, any future drivers making this mistake
>cause build failures that are easier to spot.

Looks fine.


>
>[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201106221743.3271965-1-arnd@kernel.org/
>
>----
>Hope that helps, I had commented on the cops removal about sending
>this but of course not everyone here saw that. Let me know if I should
>resend the patches together with the cover letter.

Yes please. Thanks!


>
>    Arnd