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charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <68316F0B-2442-4492-A041-E57EFC58AC08@redfish-solutions.com> Organization: Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - c/o Alberga Business Park, 6 krs, Bertel Jungin Aukio 5, 02600 Espoo On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 08:41:27PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2026, at 7:05 AM, David Woodhouse 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