Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Remove three Sun net drivers

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-01-07T01:36:26Z

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/

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