netdev - Re: [PATCH 23/24] net, diet: Add coccinelle script to convert drivers to ETHTOOL

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Message-ID: <20140507001830.GA7875@kaos.lebenslange-mailadresse.de>
Date:	Wed, 7 May 2014 00:18:30 +0000
From:	Wilfried Klaebe <w-lkml@...enslange-mailadresse.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	nicolas.palix@...g.fr, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com,
	ak@...ux.intel.com, Julia.Lawall@...6.fr, Gilles.Muller@...6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/24] net, diet: Add coccinelle script to convert
 drivers to ETHTOOL_OPS

Am Tue, May 06, 2014 at 11:05:04AM -0400 schrieb David Miller:
> SET_ETHTOOL_OPS only exists so that drivers could be compiled
> on "older" kernels.
> 
> But the usefulness of that is long gone, we've had netdev->ethtool_ops
> since way before we started using GIT.
> 
> I'd rather see a patch which removes it, to be honest.

Something like this?

https://www.lebenslange-mailadresse.de/lkml/remove-SET_ETHTOOL_OPS.patch

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