netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 6/6] bonding: make Kconfig toggle to disable legacy interfaces

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Date:   Sat, 3 Oct 2020 15:48:26 -0400
From:   Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>,
        Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>,
        Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Davis <tadavis@....gov>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 6/6] bonding: make Kconfig toggle to disable
 legacy interfaces

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 6:57 PM David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> From: Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>
> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 16:23:46 -0400
>
> > I'd had a bit of feedback that people would rather see both, and be
> > able to toggle off the old ones, rather than only having one or the
> > other, depending on the toggle, so I thought I'd give this a try. I
> > kind of liked the one or the other route, but I see the problems with
> > that too.
>
> Please keep everything for the entire deprecation period, unconditionally.

Okay, so 100% drop the Kconfig flag patch, but duplicate sysfs
interface names are acceptable, correct? Then what about the procfs
file having duplicate Slave and Port lines? Just leave them all as
Slave?

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod@...hat.com