netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] s390/qeth: remove legacy SNA-support

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Message-Id: <20170117.102638.568359495126686190.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 17 Jan 2017 10:26:38 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        schwidefsky@...ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] s390/qeth: remove legacy SNA-support

From: Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 13:39:51 +0100

> The qeth driver supports various operation modes of the underlying
> network interface cards.
> One specific mode (OSN) belonged to a Linux-assisted solution
> that enabled existing IBM mainframe operating systems to continue to run
> the legacy IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) protocol.
> Since IBM mainframes ceased to use the SNA protocol and OSN mode
> reached its end of life, this patch removes OSN mode from the qeth
> driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reference-ID: NET1609

Please stop trying to remove features from the tree just because a company
decided to end of life a product.  That is not a legitimate justification.

I am not applying this.