On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 11:18:31PM -0800, Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote:

This allows the code managing device instances to be simplified
significantly. The VLB bus is very obsolete and last appeared on
P5 Pentium-era hardware. Support for it has been removed from
other drivers, and it is highly unlikely anyone is using it with
modern Linux kernels.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <redacted>

Hi Ethan,

I don't think this driver has received much attention for some time.
So, unless you have hardware to test changes on, I would suggest
either leaving it alone or, if we suspect there are no users,
removing it.

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