netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: usb: rtl8150: remove rtl8150

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Message-ID: <CADkSEUgjx9=tGMuoXUUNb_bnM8Qnk=xV+ydOx=AYNxSrHFm=aQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:49:12 -0800
From: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@...il.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, 
	Petko Manolov <petkan@...leusys.com>, 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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: usb: rtl8150: remove rtl8150_t typedef
 for struct rtl8150

On Sun, Jan 25, 2026 at 8:40 AM Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:
>   Netdev discourages patches which perform simple clean-ups, which are
>   not in the context of other work.
[...]
> These patches are getting into this territory. If you have these
> devices in your hand, and are going to add new features, when we might
> accept them as part of a bigger patchsets. Otherwise we are likely to
> reject them, they are just pointless churn.
Okay. I won't send patches like this in the future unless I am making
major changes to the code. (This is true of sr9700, which I will
continue to improve - I am working on documenting the registers and
planning to add support for missing features that the hardware
supports.)