netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] atp: drop ancient parallel port Ethernet driver

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Message-ID: <bb532bad-8b3b-44da-868a-5d42b45a45fd@lunn.ch>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 18:47:30 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@...il.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] atp: drop ancient parallel port Ethernet
 driver

On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 11:29:49PM -0800, Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote:
> This driver is old and almost certainly entirely unused. The two other
> parallel port Ethernet drivers (de600/de620) were removed by Paul
> Gortmaker in commit 168e06ae26dd327df347e70b7244218ff1766a1f,
> but this driver remained. Drop it - Paul's reasoning applies here as
> well. To quote him:

Hi Ethan

Please slow down. Get one patch correctly merged to learn the
processes. Then move onto the next. All you submissions are broken, so
you are just wasting everybody's time.

	   Andrew