On Wed, 2022-06-08 at 16:00 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:

On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 3:58 PM David Ahern [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 6/8/22 8:58 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

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IMO to encourage use of the track-capable API we could keep their names
short and call the legacy functions __netdev_hold() as I mentioned or
maybe netdev_hold_notrack().

I like that option. Similar to the old nla_parse functions that were
renamed with _deprecated - makes it easier to catch new uses.

I think we need to clearly document the needed conversions for future
bugfix backports.

To be on the same page: do you think we need something under
Documentation with this patch? or with the later dev_hold rename? or
did I misunderstood completely?

Thanks!

Paolo