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 15:43:36 +0900
From:   Vincent MAILHOL <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...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. 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 :)

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


Yours sincerely,
Vincent Mailhol