On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 07:49:44PM +0000, Saleem, Shiraz wrote: > > Subject: Re: [RFC 20/20] RDMA/i40iw: Mark i40iw as deprecated > > > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 09:45:19AM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > > > From: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.sal...@intel.com> > > > > > > Mark i40iw as deprecated/obsolete. > > > > > > irdma is the replacement driver that supports X722. > > > > Can you simply delete old one and add MODULE_ALIAS() in new driver? > > > > Yes, but we thought typically driver has to be deprecated for a few cycles > before removing it.
If you completely replace it with something that works the same, why keep the old one around at all? Unless you don't trust your new code? :) thanks, greg k-h
