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