Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Remove three Sun net drivers
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From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: 2023-01-07 01:37:05
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Hello! On 1/6/23 23:00, Anirudh Venkataramanan wrote:
This series removes the Sun Cassini, LDOM vswitch and sunvnet drivers.
This would affect a large number of Linux on SPARC users. Please don't! We're still maintaining an active sparc64 port for Debian, see [1]. So does Gentoo [2].
In a recent patch series that touched these drivers [1], it was suggested that these drivers should be removed completely. git logs suggest that there hasn't been any significant feature addition, improvement or fixes to user-visible bugs in a while. A web search didn't indicate any recent discussions or any evidence that there are users out there who care about these drivers.
Well, these drivers just work and I don't see why there should be regular discussions about them or changes. Adrian
[1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-12-09/ [2] https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/
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