Re: [PATCH 23/24] net, diet: Add coccinelle script to convert drivers to ETHTOOL_OPS

[David Miller]

From: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 11:27:27 +0200

> I saw you rejected almost the entire patch series.
> 
> However, is there any interest to enforce the use of SET_ETHTOOL_OPS ?
> Are you likely to merge the patch 24/24 [1] ?

SET_ETHTOOL_OPS only exists so that drivers could be compiled
on "older" kernels.

But the usefulness of that is long gone, we've had netdev->ethtool_ops
since way before we started using GIT.

I'd rather see a patch which removes it, to be honest.
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