From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37308C5479D for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2023 01:36:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230201AbjAGBgZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2023 20:36:25 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:43358 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229751AbjAGBgY (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2023 20:36:24 -0500 Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B4A67D9FD for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2023 17:36:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.95) with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (envelope-from ) id 1pDy88-001Dtj-Oh; Sat, 07 Jan 2023 02:36:16 +0100 Received: from p57bd9807.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([87.189.152.7] helo=[192.168.178.81]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.95) with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (envelope-from ) id 1pDy88-002IA8-GA; Sat, 07 Jan 2023 02:36:16 +0100 Message-ID: <800d35d9-4ced-052e-aebe-683f431356ae@physik.fu-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 02:36:15 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.6.1 Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Remove three Sun net drivers Content-Language: en-US To: Anirudh Venkataramanan , netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Leon Romanovsky References: <20230106220020.1820147-1-anirudh.venkataramanan@intel.com> From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz In-Reply-To: <20230106220020.1820147-1-anirudh.venkataramanan@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Original-Sender: glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de X-Originating-IP: 87.189.152.7 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org Hello! On 1/6/23 23:00, Anirudh Venkataramanan wrote: > This series removes the Sun Cassini, LDOM vswitch and sunvnet drivers. This would affect a large number of Linux on SPARC users. Please don't! We're still maintaining an active sparc64 port for Debian, see [1]. So does Gentoo [2]. > In a recent patch series that touched these drivers [1], it was suggested > that these drivers should be removed completely. git logs suggest that > there hasn't been any significant feature addition, improvement or fixes > to user-visible bugs in a while. A web search didn't indicate any recent > discussions or any evidence that there are users out there who care about > these drivers. Well, these drivers just work and I don't see why there should be regular discussions about them or changes. Adrian > [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-12-09/ > [2] https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/ -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913