netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v1] ethtool: ethtool_get_drvinfo: populate drvinfo fields even if callback exits

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Date:   Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:13:14 +0200
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Vincent MAILHOL <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Guangbin Huang <huangguangbin2@...wei.com>,
        Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@...o.com>,
        Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>,
        Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>,
        Marco Bonelli <marco@...eim.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1] ethtool: ethtool_get_drvinfo: populate
 drvinfo fields even if callback exits

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 03:43:36PM +0900, Vincent MAILHOL wrote:
> On Fri. 11 Nov. 2022 à 02:01, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 11:11:38 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > I will be happy to see such patch and will review it, but can't add sign-off
> > > as I'm not netdev maintainer.
> >
> > Did we finish the version removal work? :S
> >
> > Personally I'd rather direct any effort towards writing a checkpatch /
> > cocci / python check that catches new cases than cleaning up the pile
> > of drivers we have. A lot of which are not actively used..
> 
> Agree, but I will not work on that (because of other personal
> priorities). If someone else wants to do it, go ahead :)

It's ok, Jakub referred to me. I sent a lot of patches like this.
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/5d76f3116ee795071ec044eabb815d6c2bdc7dbd.1649922731.git.leonro@nvidia.com/

> 
> What I can do is update the documentation:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20221111064054.371965-1-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr/
> 
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> Vincent Mailhol