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23 Apr 2026 00:53:31 -0700 Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:53:29 +0300 From: Andy Shevchenko To: Philip Prindeville Cc: David Woodhouse , 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, 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH net-deletions v2] net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers Message-ID: References: <20260422041846.2035118-1-kuba@kernel.org> <68316F0B-2442-4492-A041-E57EFC58AC08@redfish-solutions.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <68316F0B-2442-4492-A041-E57EFC58AC08@redfish-solutions.com> Organization: Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - c/o Alberga Business Park, 6 krs, Bertel Jungin Aukio 5, 02600 Espoo On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 08:41:27PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2026, at 7:05 AM, David Woodhouse 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... -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko