On Thu, 15 Jan 2026, Simon Horman wrote:

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 No attention means the driver just works, why wouldn't it?  It's no 
rocket science.  FWIW I continue using several drivers that saw little to 
no change recently across various platforms.

Interesting. Subjectively, I'd say that Networking drivers it can be a sign
that the devices aren't being used in the wild. But clearly that signal was
incorrect in this case.

 A stable driver usually doesn't require attention.  A potential issue is 
using dangerous C language features or ones that have been obsoleted in a 
newer version of the standard, which cause compilation warnings or errors 
in a new version of the compiler.  But that depends on how a given driver 
was written in the first place.

  Maciej