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

Andy Shevchenko
2026-04-23T07:53:49Z

On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 08:41:27PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> > 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.

The problem as I understand it is in one's willing to maintain and
support that driver while doing regular testing...

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko