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Message-ID: <20231013170732.587afd86@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 17:07:32 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@...solutions.net>, Kalle Valo
 <kvalo@...nel.org>
Cc: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>, "Jiri Pirko" <jiri@...nulli.us>, "Arnd
 Bergmann" <arnd@...nel.org>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "Greg
 Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org, "Michael
 Hennerich" <michael.hennerich@...log.com>, "Paolo Abeni"
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, "Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@...gle.com>, "David S .
 Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, "Rodolfo Zitellini" <rwz@...ro.org>,
 linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/10] appletalk: make localtalk and ppp support
 conditional

On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:57:38 +0200 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The .ndo_do_ioctl() netdev operation used to be how one communicates
> with a network driver from userspace, but since my previous cleanup [1],
> it is purely internal to the kernel.
> 
> Removing the cops appletalk/localtalk driver made me revisit the
> missing pieces from that older series, removing all the unused
> implementations in wireless drivers as well as the two kernel-internal
> callers in the ieee802154 and appletalk stacks.
> 
> One ethernet driver was already merged in the meantime that should
> have used .ndo_eth_ioctl instead of .ndo_do_ioctl, so fix that as well.
> With the complete removal, any future drivers making this mistake
> cause build failures that are easier to spot.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201106221743.3271965-1-arnd@kernel.org/

Kalle, Johannes, do these apply for you?
I'm getting a small conflict on patch 8 and bigger one on patch 9.
If this applies for you maybe you can take it and flush out
wireless-next soon after?

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