On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 09:54:12AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 17:15:01 +0100 Simon Horman wrote: > > > > We could merge or otherwise rearrange that section with the one proposed by > > > > this patch. But I didn't feel it was necessary last week. > > > > > > Somewhat, we don't push back on correct use of device-managed APIs. > > > But converting ancient drivers to be device-managed just to save > > > 2 or 3 LoC is pointless churn. Which in my mind falls squarely > > > under the new section, the new section is intended for people sending > > > trivial patches. > > > > Thanks, I can try and work with that. Do you want to call out older drivers > > too? I was intentionally skipping that for now. But I do agree it should > > be mentioned at some point. > > What is and isn't considered old may be hard to determine. I hope that > your existing "not part of other work" phrasing will give us the same > effect, as there's usually no other work for old drivers. I agree that would be very subjective. And your point about the presence of other work is well made. I'll work on v2 based on this short discussion. Thanks.
