From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
To: Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx@redfish-solutions.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-deletions v2] net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:53:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aenP-TVgF-PrayEu@ashevche-desk.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68316F0B-2442-4492-A041-E57EFC58AC08@redfish-solutions.com>
On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 08:41:27PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> > On Apr 22, 2026, at 7:05 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2026-04-21 at 21:18 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
...
> >> I'm still deleting the solos driver, chances are nobody uses it.
> >> Easy enough to revert back in since core is still around.
> >> The guiding principle is to keep USB modems and delete
> >> the rest as USB ADSL2+ CPEs were most popular historically.
> >
> > Still not entirely convinced; I worked on both USB ATM modems and on
> > Solos, and the Solos is both the most modern and the only one I still
> > actually have. And the only one we have native support for that could
> > ever do full 24Mb/s ADSL2+, I believe.
> >
> > If we drop it, OpenWrt will need to drop support for these, which I
> > think were quite popular at the time; there were a few UK resellers:
> > https://openwrt.org/toh/traverse/geos1_1
> >
> > I still don't actually care *enough* to try to find an ADSL line I
> > could plug one into for testing though... :)
>
> I have 3 boards lying around if anyone wants them.
The problem as I understand it is in one's willing to maintain and
support that driver while doing regular testing...
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-23 7:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-22 4:18 [PATCH net-deletions v2] net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-22 7:08 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-04-22 10:53 ` Simon Horman
2026-04-22 13:05 ` David Woodhouse
2026-04-23 2:38 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-23 2:41 ` Philip Prindeville
2026-04-23 7:53 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2026-04-22 13:17 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
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