netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: usb: kaweth: remove eth_addr_t typedef and bcast

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Message-ID: <CADkSEUjk3uE+vMOPw0u7MOc4+AN__LWsriWA9fVhm2C35gJ6MA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:41:51 -0800
From: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@...il.com>
To: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: usb: kaweth: remove eth_addr_t typedef
 and bcast_addr definition

On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 1:23 AM Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com> wrote:
> yes I am aware of this. Yet there is no point in breaking
> existing setups. I would prefer this driver to get only
> clear fixes and adaptions to changes in API that are absolutely
> necessary.

Hi, Oliver,

That is exactly the point I was trying to make with those statistics -
I realized cleaning up kaweth was not worthwhile due to the lack of
users.
I wasn't proposing removing it; it is simple enough that it doesn't
really cause any maintenance workload.

Ethan