From: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com,
pabeni@redhat.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org,
corbet@lwn.net, tariqt@nvidia.com, dtatulea@nvidia.com,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, hawk@kernel.org,
ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] docs: page_pool: drop the mention of the legacy stats API
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 21:25:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ba941849c110930ffa4fecc4f257703@tipi-net.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260526155722.2790742-4-kuba@kernel.org>
On 26.5.2026 17:57, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> The Netlink support for querying page pool stats has been
> proven out in production, let's remove the mention of the
> helper meant for dumping page pool stats into ethtool -S
> from the docs.
>
> Call out in the kdoc that this API is deprecated.
> Some drivers may not be able to use the Netlink API
> (if page pool is shared across netdevs). So the old API
> is not _completely_ dead. But we shouldn't advertise it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> [...]
Reviewed-by: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-26 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-26 15:57 [PATCH net-next 0/4] docs: page_pool: tweaks and updates Jakub Kicinski
2026-05-26 15:57 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] docs: net: page_pool: drop reference to removed PP_FLAG_PAGE_FRAG Jakub Kicinski
2026-05-26 19:18 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-05-26 15:57 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] docs: clarify page pool NAPI consumer requirement Jakub Kicinski
2026-05-26 19:22 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-05-26 15:57 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] docs: page_pool: drop the mention of the legacy stats API Jakub Kicinski
2026-05-26 19:25 ` Nicolai Buchwitz [this message]
2026-05-26 15:57 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: make page_pool_get_stats() void Jakub Kicinski
2026-05-26 19:36 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
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