netdev - Re: [PATCH net 03/10] netlink: specs: ethtool: replace underscores with dashes in names

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Message-ID: <20250624161455.49077638@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:14:55 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, donald.hunter@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net 03/10] netlink: specs: ethtool: replace underscores
 with dashes in names

On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 01:07:15 +0200 Kory Maincent wrote:
> > Fixes: 13e59344fb9d ("net: ethtool: add support for symmetric-xor RSS hash")
> > Fixes: 46fb3ba95b93 ("ethtool: Add an interface for flashing transceiver
> > modules' firmware")   
> 
> Why do you use fixes tag? You are not fixing something broken but standardizing
> the python naming.

To direct them within stable releases. I think it's worth pushing
this change into 6.12 LTS in case someone packages YNL out of there.
One could argue this is a breaking change for Python users.