From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.mifritscher.de (mifritscher.de [188.40.170.105]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A19683D1CC6; Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:46:25 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=188.40.170.105 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776861987; cv=none; b=WxEuxX3F9ZB1lkD5z7Ye2Lg9NDV7miW3T/BDNMUNi0VyWZp/UDvznKDrHawnP5pIJCjKkcO4ChZd/BqIwgqnhAqQvtDPnpSxgDeLWlcozEWhkRW9nRFT36fzs/HN8B5pjoUOJ9jc8KUyZ9EMxUFabWweYyrhtqLaClvBOSdyD4Y= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776861987; c=relaxed/simple; bh=5XDs8cWdZXpGBsh4Aa38JGEB+lFfhkffirPSTw1NeOE=; h=MIME-Version:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References: Message-ID:Content-Type; b=iEuvF5PiSP3tHcMrXMhUviuyF1+MX/qtZYnjmIn6yslaRMA2ps9jVqVYetncAurAa95P1ClEGQI8xLNpwJVNziA+NkOrLQixD5sMxIeXtq7jT601I91Bck5NtQCX0hiSIolLb391+bHt5cNncpSNZ0RkB/GAIpAN/wt1rG8VmWw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=fritscher.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=fritscher.net; arc=none smtp.client-ip=188.40.170.105 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=fritscher.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=fritscher.net Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mifritscher.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CE2B3B2728; Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:46:23 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavis at mifritscher.vserverkompetenz.de Received: from mail.mifritscher.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mifritscher.vserverkompetenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavis, port 10024) with ESMTP id Q2U_6VBKJUms; Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:46:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mifritscher.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mifritscher.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D83063B2618; Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:46:22 +0200 (CEST) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:46:22 +0200 From: michael@fritscher.net To: Andrew Lunn Cc: "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman , Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net 14/18] drivers: net: xircom: xirc2ps: Remove this driver In-Reply-To: <408d1987-6ecb-4d3b-afed-8e202c8ff21d@lunn.ch> References: <73e3a34c-f1dc-403b-b007-18ff85d66ea1@fritscher.net> <408d1987-6ecb-4d3b-afed-8e202c8ff21d@lunn.ch> Message-ID: X-Sender: michael@fritscher.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Am 2026-04-22 14:15, schrieb Andrew Lunn: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 08:21:23AM +0200, Michael Fritscher wrote: >> 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 ;-) > > Hi Michael > > I will drop this from the patchset for the moment. > > Would you be willing to take up the Maintainer role for it? > > Andrew Hello Andrew, thanks! If someone mentors me I could try... I have experience with C programming, esp. in the embedded world, but (almost) no experience with the Linux kernel development. But regression tests etc. can be conducted by me - on 32 and 64 bit machines. The oldest being a P120, the newest the mentioned X61 with its C2D CPU. Best regards Michael