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From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 10:29:58 +0300 Kalle Valo wrote:
> > No matter what the time frame is, it's never going to line up with all
> > distros, or catch everyone properly.  
> 
> Yeah, that's true.
> 
> > I recommend, just delete all the ones you feel are not being used, in a
> > patch that removes them one-by-one, so that it is trivial to revert if
> > someone shows up and says "hey, my device stopped working!" a few years
> > in the future.  
> 
> I'm starting to lean towards this as well. We have talked about this for
> so long now but no practical solution ever found so maybe just bite the
> bullet finally. What do others think?

FWIW in Ethernet we do what Greg says. Delete it, if someone complains
we revert back in. The revert did actually happen once, it was pretty
painless (Greg even took it into stable tree, IIRC).