From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32986C388F4 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 20:18:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F07B20665 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 20:18:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728106AbfI0USF (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:18:05 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:49362 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725815AbfI0USF (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:18:05 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5C41910C094B; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 20:18:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from linux-ws.nc.xsintricity.com (ovpn-112-20.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.112.20]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E16D5D9C3; Fri, 27 Sep 2019 20:18:02 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC 20/20] RDMA/i40iw: Mark i40iw as deprecated From: Doug Ledford To: "Saleem, Shiraz" , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" Cc: Leon Romanovsky , "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" , "jgg@mellanox.com" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:18:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <9DD61F30A802C4429A01CA4200E302A7AC70465F@fmsmsx123.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <20190926164519.10471-1-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> <20190926164519.10471-21-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> <20190926174009.GD14368@unreal> <9DD61F30A802C4429A01CA4200E302A7AC702BDA@fmsmsx123.amr.corp.intel.com> <20190926195517.GA1743170@kroah.com> <9DD61F30A802C4429A01CA4200E302A7AC70465F@fmsmsx123.amr.corp.intel.com> Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-349MnWMH84vVbtzERMIR" User-Agent: Evolution 3.32.4 (3.32.4-1.fc30) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.14 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.66]); Fri, 27 Sep 2019 20:18:04 +0000 (UTC) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org --=-349MnWMH84vVbtzERMIR Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2019-09-27 at 14:28 +0000, Saleem, Shiraz wrote: > > Subject: Re: [RFC 20/20] RDMA/i40iw: Mark i40iw as deprecated > >=20 > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 07:49:44PM +0000, Saleem, Shiraz wrote: > > > > Subject: Re: [RFC 20/20] RDMA/i40iw: Mark i40iw as deprecated > > > >=20 > > > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 09:45:19AM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > > > > > From: Shiraz Saleem > > > > >=20 > > > > > Mark i40iw as deprecated/obsolete. > > > > >=20 > > > > > irdma is the replacement driver that supports X722. > > > >=20 > > > > Can you simply delete old one and add MODULE_ALIAS() in new > > > > driver? > > > >=20 > > >=20 > > > Yes, but we thought typically driver has to be deprecated for a > > > few cycles > > before removing it. > >=20 > > If you completely replace it with something that works the same, why > > keep the old > > one around at all? >=20 > Agree. Thanks! >=20 >=20 > > Unless you don't trust your new code? :) > >=20 > We do :) I don't.... --=20 Doug Ledford GPG KeyID: B826A3330E572FDD Fingerprint =3D AE6B 1BDA 122B 23B4 265B 1274 B826 A333 0E57 2FDD --=-349MnWMH84vVbtzERMIR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEErmsb2hIrI7QmWxJ0uCajMw5XL90FAl2ObngACgkQuCajMw5X L92NkQ//Wdl5eMZtMdMCckraPow4l2jmIM5aDxMOH1TTzao9YNnF4yRdoWBAL6bA jta60sqR81DuwpIIHufavL1TJ+OsfY8nlm3gKOp6lwWdA55SFccma/teuIbbOj3O ZHez+oa+95Ot0J7oeCS3w464g5MEiKSTE6TNUzmpF9KGoyzPC4eoYYXLp8aGpuTs WKPiadGPO4nzKhYWo/e8y8eZHkhkGbPusWZz7CMmCiTfRODXziIP2w2FUpNXHpq8 fXLHbRAYgahgvVS3msRCQHCcTqFeoG4nFSTbCiUwqGoOaKgbuq64hsYmHe+ngT6E OzXym/oQjlWnoPtG0JlwW+BCaTejdFZYGuqdYT894/0lDkJGYLhE5yBOs6TY4c0+ LFmm69xH4TYhTBj+8erVZEYzL3mF5GGr9dtxs3wDNkmyAxzULHc/Py1bvS46O5A9 hXQQGXR730ys2uCG1Pgtid8rnvGzLTslpsaULdaQMca6d95NFQx0UUQsQ/eoKwZd u6ezOWnxnZr2ufzpZiZccxzrj+0U8/QjtQkR/g+eGY7Zbbe8WeVuorhtev2wWTbw /kt84TG8urlvdgBKUGXuhsm2yXgQjf3M2AitSU1by5iV0ksZvWF7mqglKZ1c+wS6 5E9KrTgANskhpH4KOqJD2NbEDkY/vx0lYlN2k35LocdvpwiciC0= =i7nI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-349MnWMH84vVbtzERMIR--