On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 16:29:09 -0800 David Decotigny <[email protected]> wrote:
> Along the way, I chose to drop in the new structure the 3 ethtool_cmd > fields marked "deprecated" (transceiver/maxrxpkt/maxtxpkt). They are > still available for old drivers via the (old) ETHTOOL_GSET/SSET API, > but are not available to drivers that switch to new API. Of those 3 > fields, ethtool_cmd::transceiver seems to be still actively used by > several drivers, maybe we should not consider this field deprecated? > The 2 other fields are basically not used. This transition requires > some care in the way old and new ethtool talk to the kernel. Please just fix old drivers. It is perfectly acceptable to break any out of tree drivers. _______________________________________________ fcoe-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-fcoe.org/mailman/listinfo/fcoe-devel
