Re: [PATCH net-next 1/7] ethernet: Remove the Sun Cassini driver

On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 1:00 AM Anirudh Venkataramanan
[off-list ref] wrote:

In a recent patch series that touched this driver [1], it was suggested
that this driver 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
this driver. Thus, remove this driver.

Notes:

checkpatch complains "WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does
MAINTAINERS need updating?". The files being removed don't have their
own entries in the MAINTAINERS file, so there's nothing to remove.

checkpatch also complains about the long lore link below.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/99629223-ac1b-0f82-50b8-ea307b3b0197@intel.com/T/#t (local)

Suggested-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anirudh Venkataramanan <redacted>

Do we drop/delete a working functionality by only taking in account
git activity ?

What is a proper way to decline patch series (vs Acked-by) ?

Thanks.