On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 23:17:15 +0100 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Any suggestions on how to proceed? I think the ndo_siocdevprivate > change is the most interesting here, and I would like to get > that merged. Splitting out / eliminating ioctl pass-thry in general seems like a nice clean up. How did you get the ndo_eth_ioctl patch done, was it manual work? > For the wireless drivers, removing the old drivers > instead of just the dead code might be an alternative, depending > on whether anyone thinks there might still be users. Dunno if you want to dig into removal with a series like this, anything using ioctls will be pretty old (with the exception of what you separated into ndo_eth_ioctl). You may get bogged down.