Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 05:57:38PM CEST, arnd@xxxxxxxx wrote: >On Wed, Oct 11, 2023, at 17:04, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> Could you provide a cover letter for the set please? > >Subject: [PATCH v2 00/10] remove final .ndo_do_ioctl references > >The .ndo_do_ioctl() netdev operation used to be how one communicates >with a network driver from userspace, but since my previous cleanup [1], >it is purely internal to the kernel. > >Removing the cops appletalk/localtalk driver made me revisit the >missing pieces from that older series, removing all the unused >implementations in wireless drivers as well as the two kernel-internal >callers in the ieee802154 and appletalk stacks. > >One ethernet driver was already merged in the meantime that should >have used .ndo_eth_ioctl instead of .ndo_do_ioctl, so fix that as well. >With the complete removal, any future drivers making this mistake >cause build failures that are easier to spot. Looks fine. > >[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201106221743.3271965-1-arnd@xxxxxxxxxx/ > >---- >Hope that helps, I had commented on the cops removal about sending >this but of course not everyone here saw that. Let me know if I should >resend the patches together with the cover letter. Yes please. Thanks! > > Arnd
