On Fri, 2019-09-27 at 14:28 +0000, Saleem, Shiraz wrote:
> > Subject: Re: [RFC 20/20] RDMA/i40iw: Mark i40iw as deprecated
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 07:49:44PM +0000, Saleem, Shiraz wrote:
> > > > Subject: Re: [RFC 20/20] RDMA/i40iw: Mark i40iw as deprecated
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 09:45:19AM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > > > > From: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >
> > > > > Mark i40iw as deprecated/obsolete.
> > > > >
> > > > > irdma is the replacement driver that supports X722.
> > > >
> > > > Can you simply delete old one and add MODULE_ALIAS() in new
> > > > driver?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes, but we thought typically driver has to be deprecated for a
> > > few cycles
> > before removing it.
> >
> > If you completely replace it with something that works the same, why
> > keep the old
> > one around at all?
>
> Agree. Thanks!
>
>
> > Unless you don't trust your new code? :)
> >
> We do :)
I don't....
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