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

Philip Prindeville
2026-04-23T04:09:26Z

> On Apr 22, 2026, at 7:05 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2026-04-21 at 21:18 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>>
>> 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... :)

I have 3 boards lying around if anyone wants them.