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Message-ID: <800d35d9-4ced-052e-aebe-683f431356ae@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 02:36:15 +0100
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@...el.com>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Remove three Sun net drivers
Hello!
On 1/6/23 23:00, Anirudh Venkataramanan wrote:
> This series removes the Sun Cassini, LDOM vswitch and sunvnet drivers.
This would affect a large number of Linux on SPARC users. Please don't!
We're still maintaining an active sparc64 port for Debian, see [1]. So
does Gentoo [2].
> In a recent patch series that touched these drivers [1], it was suggested
> that these drivers should be removed completely. git logs suggest that
> there hasn't been any significant feature addition, improvement or fixes
> to user-visible bugs in a while. A web search didn't indicate any recent
> discussions or any evidence that there are users out there who care about
> these drivers.
Well, these drivers just work and I don't see why there should be regular
discussions about them or changes.
Adrian
> [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-12-09/
> [2] https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/
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