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* Re: [PATCH net 14/18] drivers: net: xircom: xirc2ps: Remove this driver
@ 2026-04-22  6:21 Michael Fritscher
  2026-04-22 12:15 ` Andrew Lunn
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Michael Fritscher @ 2026-04-22  6:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Lunn, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
	Paolo Abeni, Simon Horman, Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan
  Cc: linux-kernel, netdev, linux-doc, Andrew Lunn

Good day,

actually, I do use Xircom PCMCIA network cards (yes, the 16 bit ones) on 
Lenovo X60/X61 laptops as a second LAN card for server maintenances with 
current 64 bit distros (e.g. Debian Trixie, which I plan to update to 
Trixie+1 when available). Why? Because I have them and they are working ;-)

Best regards
Michael Fritscher


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* [PATCH net 00/18] Remove a number of ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet drivers
@ 2026-04-21 19:31 Andrew Lunn
  2026-04-21 19:31 ` [PATCH net 14/18] drivers: net: xircom: xirc2ps: Remove this driver Andrew Lunn
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Lunn @ 2026-04-21 19:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Lunn, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
	Paolo Abeni, Simon Horman, Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan
  Cc: linux-kernel, netdev, linux-doc, Andrew Lunn

These old drivers have not been much of a Maintenance burden until
recently. Now there are more newbies using AI and fuzzers finding
issues, resulting in more work for Maintainers. Fixing these old
drivers make little sense, if it is not clear they have users.

These are all ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet devices, mostly from the last
century, a couple from 2001 or 2002. It seems unlikely they are still
used. However, remove them one patch at a time so they can be brought
back if somebody still has the hardware, runs modern kernels and wants
to take up the roll of driver Maintainer.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
---
Andrew Lunn (18):
      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: 3com: 3c59x: Remove this driver
      drivers: net: amd: Remove hplance and mvme147
      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: cirrus: cs89x0: Remove this driver
      drivers: net: cirrus: mac89x0: Remove this driver
      drivers: net: fujitsu: fmvj18x: Remove this driver
      drivers: net: xircom: xirc2ps: Remove this driver
      drivers: net: 8390: AX88190: Remove this driver
      drivers: net: 8390: pcnet: Remove this driver
      drivers: net: 8390: ultra: Remove this driver
      drivers: net: 8390: wd80x3: Remove this driver

 .../device_drivers/ethernet/3com/vortex.rst        |  459 ---
 MAINTAINERS                                        |    7 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c509.c                  | 1448 ---------
 drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c515.c                  | 1566 ---------
 drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c574_cs.c               | 1164 -------
 drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c589_cs.c               |  974 ------
 drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c59x.c                  | 3357 --------------------
 drivers/net/ethernet/3com/Kconfig                  |   66 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/3com/Makefile                 |    5 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Kconfig                  |   52 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Makefile                 |    4 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/axnet_cs.c               | 1707 ----------
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/pcnet_cs.c               | 1717 ----------
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/smc-ultra.c              |  630 ----
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/wd.c                     |  575 ----
 drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig                       |    2 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/amd/7990.c                    |  671 ----
 drivers/net/ethernet/amd/7990.h                    |  251 --
 drivers/net/ethernet/amd/Kconfig                   |   39 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/amd/Makefile                  |    4 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/amd/hplance.c                 |  238 --
 drivers/net/ethernet/amd/hplance.h                 |   27 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/amd/lance.c                   | 1317 --------
 drivers/net/ethernet/amd/mvme147.c                 |  198 --
 drivers/net/ethernet/amd/nmclan_cs.c               | 1508 ---------
 drivers/net/ethernet/cirrus/Kconfig                |   40 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/cirrus/Makefile               |    2 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/cirrus/cs89x0.c               | 1915 -----------
 drivers/net/ethernet/cirrus/cs89x0.h               |  461 ---
 drivers/net/ethernet/cirrus/mac89x0.c              |  577 ----
 drivers/net/ethernet/fujitsu/Kconfig               |   30 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/fujitsu/Makefile              |    6 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/fujitsu/fmvj18x_cs.c          | 1176 -------
 drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/Kconfig                  |   27 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/Makefile                 |    2 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc9194.c                | 1535 ---------
 drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91c92_cs.c            | 2059 ------------
 drivers/net/ethernet/xircom/Kconfig                |   30 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/xircom/Makefile               |    6 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/xircom/xirc2ps_cs.c           | 1794 -----------
 40 files changed, 27646 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 1f5ffc672165ff851063a5fd044b727ab2517ae3
change-id: 20260421-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-47c88c987b34

Best regards,
-- 
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>


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