From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753402AbeACPTH (ORCPT + 1 other); Wed, 3 Jan 2018 10:19:07 -0500 Received: from mail-pg0-f52.google.com ([74.125.83.52]:42346 "EHLO mail-pg0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750864AbeACPTF (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2018 10:19:05 -0500 X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBovTgRMOtTl88jsU+jyfY5I4P6PtD7dd7hv8kYucC5BKOtJ9iJOvCTUm24WByn2gcHL7ALaNfA== Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 07:19:02 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: David Miller Cc: decot@googlers.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ethtool: do not print warning for applications using legacy API Message-ID: <20180103071902.6280e67e@xeon-e3> In-Reply-To: <20180102.215002.671661044941618104.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20171229180252.6981-1-sthemmin@microsoft.com> <20180102.215002.671661044941618104.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: On Tue, 02 Jan 2018 21:50:02 -0500 (EST) David Miller wrote: > From: Stephen Hemminger > Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 10:02:52 -0800 > > > From: Stephen Hemminger > > > > In kernel log ths message appears on every boot: > > "warning: `NetworkChangeNo' uses legacy ethtool link settings API, > > link modes are only partially reported" > > > > When ethtool link settings API changed, it started complaining about > > usages of old API. Ironically, the original patch was from google but > > the application using the legacy API is chrome. > > Chrome on my machine doesn't do this, FWIW... I did report a bug to chrome team as well.