[PATCH net-next 0/2] ethtool: drop get_settings and set_settings ops

From: Michal Kubecek
Date: Tue Aug 28 2018 - 13:56:53 EST


As Andrew Lunn pointed out in recent discussion, there is only one in tree
driver left which still defines deprecated callbacks get_settings() and
set_settings() in ethtool_ops. First patch converts this driver to
get_link_ksettings() and set_link_ksettings(). Second patch then removes
the deprecated callbacks from struct ethtool_ops and ethtool code which
falls back to them.

This doesn't break old versions of ethtool or any other userspace code
using ETHTOOL_{G,S}SET. We still implement both (old) ETHTOOL_{G,S}SET and
(new) ETHTOOL_{G,S}LINKSETTINGS ioctl commands but after this series both
will be implemented only using {g,s}et_link_ksettings(). The only affected
code would be out of tree NIC drivers which have not been converted yet.

Michal Kubecek (2):
8390/etherh: convert to ethtool_{get,set}_link_ksettings
ethtool: drop get_settings and set_settings callbacks

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net | 4 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/etherh.c | 35 ++---
include/linux/ethtool.h | 33 ++---
include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h | 15 +-
net/core/ethtool.c | 158 +++++-----------------
5 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 176 deletions(-)

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