On Fri,  6 Nov 2020 23:17:15 +0100 Arnd Bergmann wrote:

Any suggestions on how to proceed? I think the ndo_siocdevprivate
change is the most interesting here, and I would like to get
that merged.

Splitting out / eliminating ioctl pass-thry in general seems like 
a nice clean up. How did you get the ndo_eth_ioctl patch done, was 
it manual work?

For the wireless drivers, removing the old drivers
instead of just the dead code might be an alternative, depending
on whether anyone thinks there might still be users.

Dunno if you want to dig into removal with a series like this, 
anything using ioctls will be pretty old (with the exception 
of what you separated into ndo_eth_ioctl). You may get bogged 
down.