Re: [PATCH net-deletions v2] net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers

David Woodhouse
2026-04-22T13:06:35Z

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On Tue, 2026-04-21 at 21:18 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
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>    I'm still deleting the solos driver, chances are nobody uses it.
>    Easy enough to revert back in since core is still around.
>    The guiding principle is to keep USB modems and delete
>    the rest as USB ADSL2+ CPEs were most popular historically.

Still not entirely convinced; I worked on both USB ATM modems and on
Solos, and the Solos is both the most modern and the only one I still
actually have. And the only one we have native support for that could
ever do full 24Mb/s ADSL2+, I believe.

If we drop it, OpenWrt will need to drop support for these, which I
think were quite popular at the time; there were a few UK resellers:
https://openwrt.org/toh/traverse/geos1_1

I still don't actually care *enough* to try to find an ADSL line I
could plug one into for testing though... :)

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