netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: ethernet: neterion: s2io: remove unused driver

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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:00:18 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: ethernet: neterion: s2io: remove unused
 driver

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:08:07 -0800 you wrote:
> The s2io driver supports Exar (formerly Neterion and S2io) PCI-X 10
> Gigabit Ethernet cards. Hardware supporting PCI-X has not been
> manufactured in years. On x86, it was quickly replaced by PCIe. While
> it stuck around longer on POWER hardware, the last POWER hardware to
> support it was POWER7, which is not supported by ppc64le Linux
> distributions. The last supported mainstream ppc64 Linux distribution
> was RHEL 7; while it is still supported under ELS, ELS is only
> available for x86 and IBM Z. It is possible to use many PCI-X cards in
> standard PCI slots (which are still available on new motherboards), but
> it does not make sense to do so for 10 Gigabit Ethernet because the
> maximum bandwidth of standard PCI is only 1067 Mbps. It is therefore
> highly unlikely that this driver is still being used. Remove the
> driver, and move the former maintainer to the CREDITS file (restoring
> credit for the vxge driver, which was removed in commit f05643a0f60b
> ("eth: remove neterion/vxge").
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next,v2] net: ethernet: neterion: s2io: remove unused driver
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/aba0138eb7d7

You are awesome, thank you!
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