netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] phylib MMD accessor cleanups

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Message-ID: <20170321152258.GC30655@lunn.ch>
Date:   Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:22:58 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        Microchip Linux Driver Support <UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@...rochip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] phylib MMD accessor cleanups

> Thanks.  When I posted this last time around (19th Jan) I mentioned
> about marking the old _indirect() accessors with __deprecated - is
> that still something we want to do?
> 
> I haven't tested this against net-next yet, so I don't know if there
> are any new users of the indirect accessors - going down the deprecated
> route would avoid breakage, but means having to submit a patch later to
> actually remove them.
> 
> How would people want this handled?

Hi Russell

We can get patches into net-next very quickly. So i suggest you rebase
and resubmit and get it in. If something breaks, we add followup
patches to fix it.

	Andrew