netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: ethernet: pcnet32: remove VLB support

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Message-ID: <CADkSEUiAvv6eHEcLBkHRW8KFqSgcxg46+1BE25T50hT6ZkGbbA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 21:32:13 -0800
From: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@...il.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Don Fry <pcnet32@...ntier.com>, 
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: ethernet: pcnet32: remove VLB support

On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 6:20 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:21:19 -0800 Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote:
> Unless the maintainers acks this I think we should just wait until
> we can delete this driver completely. Unless this unblocks removal
> of some VLB-related APIs (which I wasn't able to spot..)

I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon, given what people
have said about its uses.

FYI, as of 6.19-rc8, the driver works with KVM's emulated device
(Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 79C97x [PCnet32 LANCE] [1022:2000]
(rev 10)), well enough that web browsing works fine and it can
download at several MB per second (multiple large files at once). It
has random short stalls (of a half second or less), but that could be
due to QEMU emulation issues.

Ethan