From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal: i=1; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc20261015; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; t=1792573629; b=rJumeTl39JHTbqjLTwfTxJUB5jCU8SoP6Xt42Vtog9CeFnGWvaT5vzBFwePrgjlgwM/Y i0i2FHbX9uUuB04slTejOoyhkGrBAIfdDHoZvM/zb83VW+Mcah4/YNr1OTMxFoFdM1d6D dFKf7ywiJMU7Dl8SRYf/GA1Yw3XSSOWFrIvS/Xv4vZOJUmp/PRNwDSNYyoIi2+w0Iwt9Z lbe+r5JeFSJUXuaexh6K5p+OXmvadm37Yp0RauPNBWSLLFwXcQrxeENaX61zJn1lvvCvO jZGEVloxlO0v5vN2gKqYdABbETtGxJRW2dhS95V5LhQjQFDIVTc5rP0twOsC0HbuxoA== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc20261015; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1792573629; h=Received:DKIM-Signature:From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:X-Mailer: In-Reply-To:References:MIME-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; bh=rg0LSI4npnBDUHtGy7KX4tR0xQfgXS+TF5Cj0A9UQlA=; b=TwReF0pqTdL156r1ljAVacn3FKYqMOkoZvCi5WusGSUgovFNjyx8XCN8rA3MD/j+Skg3 mIV3JwvsqZqrvj9xKeM3wWFkgly+FhRNyxHbDZ2p4TmMC2SIZ7BO0p8v6Lc2XIZQrovF/ 86k0YDC4YAbZAaesDpJm1I1MQgikWhOOtf0i3O+has/Ats5Q/baZYUP1UZapDSmrV2Vjj XrjK3IoW7IsWOo/lUM/N4neMQAp39fD/8DKyAWlSFH0XLKsEyJTo4CZOLcd5BCdHfu9RA PgGaDlEPmmJXWrW1UnbuxoFQflcUR1uDAUVtvhT+l4763yVqXZ2j7Kqxb7V1sLQiozA== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=k20260515 header.b="dyuS/W3e"; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=100.103.45.18 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (quasi.space.kernel.org [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (prime256v1)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 59655606A31A; Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:07:09 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key, unprotected) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=k20260515 header.b=dyuS/W3e Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BFFE11F000C9; Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:07:03 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1792573629; bh=rg0LSI4npnBDUHtGy7KX4tR0xQfgXS+TF5Cj0A9UQlA=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References; b=dyuS/W3ea7Wx2GQYveNRK6A4clR9WKquzSo7emGhmilDJhGfkRm482JLiSIwwvRnx tRz4YkGWU3RkgKsj26EjGPNpY38Ya01YaNDP0hCT90bnF7P5q+D7Py9DsMI5woYLHu wWbIaBLbHYHuXIVgoDtWJ0GLSihrVcRJkLfNz8gTGWeofTATdXiiLIVoIqZpPBnzRO XCtataIa6A8TKYyIOUu2+EzZ1bNvRfuGc+c8P/3T4KJasoornuP0Gp+q4aozA5S8bU fB3ivzGfBxENRbMhT6L4jvtekd5apDXWVnfilDfcEojbQzi8sh0s8xZWFvkeCBEgDP PUnDjzchRcszg== From: Imre Kaloz To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer , linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Jones , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby , mfd@lists.linux.dev, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Alexandre Belloni , linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Damien Le Moal , Niklas Cassel , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Machek , linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/53] MIPS: SGI-IP27: add support for the IP35 (Bedrock hub) machines Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:05:55 +0200 Message-ID: <20261021090556.21168-1-kaloz@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 In-Reply-To: <20261020145611.4e277615@kernel.org> References: <20261020110619.12774a1c@kernel.org> <20261020204214.28625-1-kaloz@kernel.org> <20261020145611.4e277615@kernel.org> X-Mailing-List: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:56:11 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote: > I don't think you answered my question, or at least I'm too daft > to catch what you mean. IP35 was not supported so nobody is using > it with Linux today. You're adding the support, and since it's > a platform discontinued 20 years ago there's 0 chance of real users > of any of this code. > > What am I missing? The users are the people running these machines, the same population as for IP27 and IP30, and the ioc3-eth driver in net/ exists for them today. The series was developed and tested on a Fuel and a Tezro in regular use, so "nobody is using it with Linux" is true only in the sense that the support isn't merged yet; that was equally true of IP30 when it went in for 5.5, and of every port before it. The kernel's test for a platform isn't commercial relevance, it's a maintainer, which Thomas is, and testers, which this series has. If netdev doesn't want to spend time on it, say so and I'll ask Thomas to take the two ioc3-eth patches through the MIPS tree. Imre