netdev - Re: [PATCH ethtool-next v1] ethtool: remove ixgb support

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Date:   Wed, 19 Apr 2023 01:12:19 +0200
From:   Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool-next v1] ethtool: remove ixgb support

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 04:41:50PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 3/23/23 12:54, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
> > The ixgb driver is no longer in use so just remove the associated code.
> > The product was discontinued in 2010.
> 
> That is the case with most of the pretty dumping tools that ethtool
> contains, yet we kept them because people might still have those Ethernet
> NICs around, why should we treat ixgb differently here? The amount of
> maintenance for this file is basically close to zero.

I agree with Florian. Unless there is an actual problem with the code,
keeping it does no harm and might actually help someone. People tend to
use all kinds of ancient hardware that vendors would like to believe to
be long gone.

Michal

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