netdev - RE: [RFC 20/20] RDMA/i40iw: Mark i40iw as deprecated

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Message-ID: <9DD61F30A802C4429A01CA4200E302A7AC70465F@fmsmsx123.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 27 Sep 2019 14:28:27 +0000
From:   "Saleem, Shiraz" <shiraz.saleem@...el.com>
To:     "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        "dledford@...hat.com" <dledford@...hat.com>,
        "jgg@...lanox.com" <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC 20/20] RDMA/i40iw: Mark i40iw as deprecated

> Subject: Re: [RFC 20/20] RDMA/i40iw: Mark i40iw as deprecated
> 
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 07:49:44PM +0000, Saleem, Shiraz wrote:
> > > Subject: Re: [RFC 20/20] RDMA/i40iw: Mark i40iw as deprecated
> > >
> > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 09:45:19AM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > > > From: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@...el.com>
> > > >
> > > > Mark i40iw as deprecated/obsolete.
> > > >
> > > > irdma is the replacement driver that supports X722.
> > >
> > > Can you simply delete old one and add MODULE_ALIAS() in new driver?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, but we thought typically driver has to be deprecated for a few cycles
> before removing it.
> 
> If you completely replace it with something that works the same, why keep the old
> one around at all?

Agree. Thanks!


> 
> Unless you don't trust your new code?  :)
> 
We do :)