From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Daniel Palmer <daniel@0x0f.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Networking deletions for 7.1
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:28:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260424072837.674f9066@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFr9PXnNVL4mUEu19jMu2sPkOucGK7Q32iB-7FY8eUpKZY_XJA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:14:51 +0900 Daniel Palmer wrote:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Andrew Lunn (12):
> > drivers: net: 3com: 3c509: Remove this driver
> > drivers: net: 3com: 3c515: Remove this driver
> > drivers: net: 3com: 3c574: Remove this driver
> > drivers: net: 3com: 3c589: Remove this driver
> > drivers: net: amd: lance: Remove this driver
> > drivers: net: amd: nmclan: Remove this driver
> > drivers: net: smsc: smc9194: Remove this driver
> > drivers: net: smsc: smc91c92: Remove this driver
> > drivers: net: fujitsu: fmvj18x: Remove this driver
> > drivers: net: 8390: AX88190: Remove this driver
> > drivers: net: 8390: ultra: Remove this driver
> > drivers: net: 8390: wd80x3: Remove this driver
>
> For the drivers I really don't think enough time was given for people
> to come out of the woodwork and say they are using one of them and if
> they'd be willing to maintain it or not.
Real users show up a few releases later. Waiting for more responses on
the ML has little value.
> If this does get merged and someone wants to put one of them back will
> it be as simple as sending a revert?
For the users? Normally they just send an email and we handle
the reverts. It happened multiple times in the past, we remove
a few drivers in each release.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-24 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-23 23:54 [GIT PULL] Networking deletions for 7.1 Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-24 1:31 ` Roman Gushchin
2026-04-24 2:39 ` Jason Xing
2026-04-24 3:10 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-24 17:43 ` Roman Gushchin
2026-04-27 16:56 ` Pratyush Yadav
2026-04-24 11:14 ` Daniel Palmer
2026-04-24 14:28 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2026-04-24 16:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-04-27 2:12 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-04-24 18:32 ` pr-tracker-bot
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