I don't need anything provided by the new interface and not the old - just happened to notice while trying to figure out how to detect that a link was up, and thought I'd give you a heads up. I'm not sure how quickly deprecated interfaces are removed from the kernel, but you probably have several more years.
If you aren't aware, this struct is deprecated as of https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3f1ac7a700d039c61d8d8b99f28d605d489a60cf (2016); the replacement is
ethtool_link_settings.I don't need anything provided by the new interface and not the old - just happened to notice while trying to figure out how to detect that a link was up, and thought I'd give you a heads up. I'm not sure how quickly deprecated interfaces are removed from the kernel, but you probably have several more years.