netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 06/17] net: ibm: emac: remove bootlist support

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <CAKxU2N_JZB4SWSZnnUHgHrfyEHWVDg25bFvvojqBxQ-U2nrZhw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 17:13:48 -0700
From: Rosen Penev <rosenp@...il.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch, davem@...emloft.net, 
	edumazet@...gle.com, pabeni@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	jacob.e.keller@...el.com, horms@...nel.org, sd@...asysnail.net, 
	chunkeey@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 06/17] net: ibm: emac: remove bootlist support

On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 4:34 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed,  2 Oct 2024 19:11:24 -0700 Rosen Penev wrote:
> > This seems to be mainly used for deterministic interfaces. systemd
> > already does this in userspace.
>
> I guess.. but what gives you the confidence this is not going to cause
> a regression for people? There's certainly plenty of machines with
> "stable naming" disabled. Whether that's wise or not is a separate
> question..
The ultimate goal was to remove custom init/exit functions. Although I
could just move all of this logic to probe...