netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/6] netdev_features: remove unused __UNUSED_NETIF_F

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Message-ID: <CANn89iL+VTJ6tEe-PZ24h+0U9BYs0t4gZDndiy7j1DwuKMBEFg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:43:16 +0200
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, 
	Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, 
	Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>, 
	nex.sw.ncis.osdt.itp.upstreaming@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/6] netdev_features: remove unused __UNUSED_NETIF_F_1

On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 5:07 PM Alexander Lobakin
<aleksander.lobakin@...el.com> wrote:
>
> NETIF_F_NO_CSUM was removed in 3.2-rc2 by commit 34324dc2bf27
> ("net: remove NETIF_F_NO_CSUM feature bit") and became
> __UNUSED_NETIF_F_1. It's not used anywhere in the code.
> Remove this bit waste.
>
> It wasn't needed to rename the flag instead of removing it as
> netdev features are not uAPI/ABI. Ethtool passes their names
> and values separately with no fixed positions and the userspace
> Ethtool code doesn't have any hardcoded feature names/bits, so
> that new Ethtool will work on older kernels and vice versa.

This is only true for recent enough ethtool (>= 3.4)

You might refine the changelog to not claim this "was not needed".

Back in 2011 (and linux-2.6.39) , this was needed for sure.

I am not sure we have a documented requirement about ethtool versions.