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

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Message-ID: <CAFr9PXmWjeKYeTO_QucDeQvj=q4hvVtEXZ2+HR_30PcLSU_gLg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:13:59 +0900
From: Daniel Palmer <daniel@...ngy.jp>
To: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@...il.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, 
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, 
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: atp: drop ancient parallel-port Ethernet driver

Hi Ethan,

On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 at 17:45, Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@...il.com> wrote:
> "The parallel port is largely replaced by USB [...] Let us not pretend
> that anyone cares about these drivers anymore, or worse - pretend that
> anyone is using them on a modern kernel."

I think I only got CC'd because I touched one of the same files
recently but as an enjoyer of mainline Linux on really old machines
and I didn't even know these existed.
According to google's AI overview the oldest machine I have running
mainline was released 1988 and even that has proper-ish ethernet.

So for FWIW

Acked-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel@...ngy.jp>