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

From: Wilfried Klaebe
Date: Tue May 06 2014 - 20:29:00 EST


Am Tue, May 06, 2014 at 11:05:04AM -0400 schrieb David Miller:
> 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.

Something like this?

https://www.lebenslange-mailadresse.de/lkml/remove-SET_ETHTOOL_OPS.patch

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