netdev - Re: Hardware support for devices using the driver file,dm9000.c

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Message-ID: <55687D26.4080104@elecsyscorp.com>
Date:	Fri, 29 May 2015 14:52:22 +0000
From:	Andrew Ruder <andrew.ruder@...csyscorp.com>
To:	nick <xerofoify@...il.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	"tklauser@...tanz.ch" <tklauser@...tanz.ch>,
	"julia.lawall@...6.fr" <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	"paul.burton@...tec.com" <paul.burton@...tec.com>,
	"Zubair.Kakakhel@...tec.com" <Zubair.Kakakhel@...tec.com>,
	"himangi774@...il.com" <himangi774@...il.com>,
	"dan.carpenter@...cle.com" <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Hardware support for devices using the driver file,dm9000.c

On 05/29/2015 09:23 AM, nick wrote:
> Greetings All,
> I am wondering if anything is still using the  Davicom DM9000 driver recently as the code base states its
> from the late 1990s. Furthermore I see no reason to keep it around if something recent i.e. last 10 years
> is using it that is based off the mainline/stable releases as otherwise it's legacy code and should be
> removed in my option.
> Cheers,
> Nick

Nick,

Yes, it is still used.

Andy


P.S.

Some context for those yelling WTF at their computer right now:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/4/206

Pretty sure he's banned from the mailing lists though.