On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 04:55:46PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

drivers/net/Space.c is the last remnant of the linux-2.4.x driver model
that required each subsystem and device driver init function to be called
from init/main.c explicitly, before the introduction of initcall levels.

In linux-7.0, this was only used for a handful of ISA network drivers,
with the ne2000 driver being the last one.

Fold the code into ne.c directly, with minimal changes to preserve
the existing command line parsing.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Thanks Arnd,

FTR, that there is an AI generated review of this patch available on
sashkio.dev. I believe that covers only pre-existing issues. And I do not
believe that review should block progress of this patch.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>

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