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A web search didn't indicate any recent >> discussions or any evidence that there are users out there who care about >> these drivers. >> >> The idea behind putting out this series is to either establish that these >> drivers are used and should be maintained, or remove them. > Anirudh, > > The Sun LDOM vswitch and sunvnet drivers are still in use, please do not > remove them or the event tracing. > We use them internally and you don't see any discussions because they > generally work fine (AFAIK). Hello Karl, Thanks for chiming in. Are there recent platforms where these drivers are used? If yes, do you know which ones? Or are these drivers useful in old/legacy platforms that are still around but perhaps no longer in production? > I think you are also going to break things by removing Sun Cassini > support, but I am not using it personally. You suspect there are users for this driver as well? > What user visible bugs are you referring to here? I was saying I don't see any evidence of recent bug fixes, which would make sense if these drivers "just work". Ani