On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 02:50:32PM +0100, Gary Guo wrote:

On Thu Apr 2, 2026 at 7:30 PM BST, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

quoted

The entire git history for this driver looks like tree-wide
and automated cleanups. There's even more coming now with
AI, so let's try to delete it instead.

quoted

+++ b/include/linux/pci_ids.h

@@ -1809,8 +1809,6 @@
 /* formerly Platform Tech */
 #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_ESS_ESS0100	0x0100
 
-#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_ALTEON		0x12ae
-
 #define PCI_SUBVENDOR_ID_CONNECT_TECH			0x12c4
 #define PCI_SUBDEVICE_ID_CONNECT_TECH_BH8_232		0x0001
 #define PCI_SUBDEVICE_ID_CONNECT_TECH_BH4_232		0x0002

Does the PCI ID needs to be removed? There was a similar change that
I recalled and the discussion eventually leads to ID not being
removed.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260123033233.16906-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com/ (local)

I don't think there is value in removing the PCI_VENDOR_ID_ALTEON
definition.