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spf=pass (sender SPF authorized) smtp.mailfrom=redfish-solutions.com (client-ip=50.20.195.61; helo=mail.redfish-solutions.com; envelope-from=philipp_subx@redfish-solutions.com; receiver=lists.ozlabs.org) X-Greylist: delayed 435 seconds by postgrey-1.37 at boromir; Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:52:16 AEST Received: from mail.redfish-solutions.com (mail.redfish-solutions.com [50.20.195.61]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange secp256r1 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4g1LGm2PPzz2xpg for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:52:15 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtpclient.apple (macbook4.redfish-solutions.com [192.168.3.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.redfish-solutions.com (8.18.1/8.18.1) with ESMTPSA id 63N2fckv405223 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:41:38 -0600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Mailing-List: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Archive: , List-Subscribe: , , List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 16.0 \(3864.500.181\)) Subject: Re: [PATCH net-deletions v2] net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers From: Philip Prindeville In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:41:27 -0600 Cc: Jakub Kicinski , davem@davemloft.net, openwrt-devel , Guy Ellis , netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, linux@armlinux.org.uk, tsbogend@alpha.franken.de, maddy@linux.ibm.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au, npiggin@gmail.com, chleroy@kernel.org, 3chas3@gmail.com, razor@blackwall.org, idosch@nvidia.com, jani.nikula@intel.com, mchehab+huawei@kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, geert@linux-m68k.org, ebiggers@kernel.org, johannes.berg@intel.com, jonathan.cameron@huawei.com, kees@kernel.org, kuniyu@google.com, fourier.thomas@gmail.com, andriy.shevchenko@intel.com, rdunlap@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, bridge@lists.linux.dev Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <68316F0B-2442-4492-A041-E57EFC58AC08@redfish-solutions.com> References: <20260422041846.2035118-1-kuba@kernel.org> To: David Woodhouse X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3864.500.181) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.6 on 192.168.4.49 > On Apr 22, 2026, at 7:05=E2=80=AFAM, David Woodhouse = wrote: >=20 > On Tue, 2026-04-21 at 21:18 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: >>=20 >> 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 >=20 > 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.