netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: ethernet: dnet: remove driver

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Message-ID: <aWkQr4ra0uEw2KFE@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:07:11 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@...ux.dev>,
	Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>,
	Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: ethernet: dnet: remove driver

On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 09:11:04PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> This legacy platform driver was used with some Qong board. Support for this
> board was removed with e731f3146ff3 ("Merge tag 'armsoc-soc' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc") in 2020.
> So remove this now orphaned driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - remove related config in arch/mips/configs/ip27_defconfig

Thanks,

It's nice to get rid of unused code.

I might have cited commit c93197b0041d ("ARM: imx: Remove i.MX31 board files").
But that notwithstanding this looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>