netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] docs: networking: clarify expectation of persistent stats

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Message-ID: <20250905160720.1e7b2136@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 16:07:20 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Naveen Mamindlapalli <naveenm@...vell.com>
Cc: <davem@...emloft.net>, <edumazet@...gle.com>, <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 <horms@...nel.org>, <corbet@....net>, <andrew@...n.ch>,
 <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] docs: networking: clarify expectation of
 persistent stats

On Fri, 5 Sep 2025 16:34:30 +0530 Naveen Mamindlapalli wrote:
> > Note that the following legacy drivers do not comply with this requirement
> > and cannot be fixed without breaking existing users:
> >  - driver1
> >  - driver2
> >  ...  
> I don’t have a definitive list of non-compliant drivers. Would you prefer to add
> a brief note stating that some drivers may not comply, without naming them explicitly?

We don't have to list them all from the start.
It's for a quick sanity check so that users don't duplicate work
validating that their driver is broken. Maybe say ".. following legacy
drivers are known not to comply .." Hopefully the "are known"
sufficiently indicates that we're covering only one quadrant of 
the Rumsfeld matrix.