>> I can send updates to other drivers, even though it's rather pointless >> to update 1G drivers at this point for example. Please let me know, >> but I'd prefer to do this in follow-up patches outside this first >> patch series. > [...] > > They should be changed to ensure they reject setting any of the high > advertising flags, but it's not urgent. if old drivers advertised a get/set_bits function while new drivers advertised a get/set_new_bits function, you could not updated any old drivers, and simply take care of rejecting invalid bits in core, by calling set_new_bits if provided, if not, rejecting bad bits and calling set_bits if no bad bits were set. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
