On Wed, 2022-06-08 at 16:00 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 3:58 PM David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 6/8/22 8:58 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > > IMO to encourage use of the track-capable API we could keep their names > > > short and call the legacy functions __netdev_hold() as I mentioned or > > > maybe netdev_hold_notrack(). > > > > I like that option. Similar to the old nla_parse functions that were > > renamed with _deprecated - makes it easier to catch new uses. > > I think we need to clearly document the needed conversions for future > bugfix backports. > To be on the same page: do you think we need something under Documentation with this patch? or with the later dev_hold rename? or did I misunderstood completely? Thanks! Paolo
