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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , Christophe Leroy Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Christensen Subject: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: remove the orphaned IBM eHEA driver Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:13:41 -0500 Message-ID: <20260629211343.3712775-1-drc@linux.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 X-Proofpoint-Reinject: loops=2 maxloops=12 X-Proofpoint-GUID: rmScWcMhoat7NIpx5BnhtFhVaJlwDeJN X-Proofpoint-Spam-Info: AW1haW4tMjYwNjI5MDE3NSBTYWx0ZWRfX4cC5R1F0F8E/ EPJlqJ0ElWut9xueHHuMtXrtuoP6TlCiMOwlB1y6JpFc28USiv2OvlwDm2mVv1gPA4iYHTqzqyM ItMonVCmkP2IYcSuc99IVlt/BzUTg8k= X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=edsNubEH c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=6a42e008 cx=c_pps a=aDMHemPKRhS1OARIsFnwRA==:117 a=aDMHemPKRhS1OARIsFnwRA==:17 a=FelO9ux0wxsA:10 a=VkNPw1HP01LnGYTKEx00:22 a=RnoormkPH1_aCDwRdu11:22 a=iQ6ETzBq9ecOQQE5vZCe:22 a=IvWWDg-NrMPg4tOFgfIA:9 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details-Enc: AW1haW4tMjYwNjI5MDE3NSBTYWx0ZWRfX5dIE45Ygui8K e1tFmk8DuxCGCRjCfz0l14S1j4X3YLC2SXML4WMGYnXDXOZ4Ptbosd1YfKcp3MjhAgv28tGK352 Y4z1kqgRYxfIhomt+mnihU5uJYn+eI0MfzP26imNsHbEJUXRJiodVQ8ViOYvgZryRNOJJ8aFNu9 RlfoMNvELIfgvVQqb1ZHdss4jFYxdKj+jSnercoSMcOV05afnHp3odGhrU5lpQJmKKHYT5x/ijy vi6Q0r8iMov7azV8PdOF6tp6/cYPQ35JRVZO0Me0GiVxbDbN2S4merYWPskrF3nA+oHIITk7hEo jbgpMCGJ/IVYszUlxqLPpqEd9AjSnUK0cUMq8O/QGKa/Rv46bOkVSz3NfnWgaNPnxNd8vAOibYp XBvuzbETJ/Eev9I3mnQrIgfJ5Hf23pjv2tb6xl1/FdUlwhVZt5bVZVU4v4sysulkEnBKgzp201p ItGTON0Flnyll0Ykgpw== X-Proofpoint-ORIG-GUID: 2gEzx2rWUS-nmF2MLg-WeaaF443sUeMb X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=baseguard engine=ICAP:2.0.293,Aquarius:18.0.1143,Hydra:6.1.125,FMLib:17.12.100.49 definitions=2026-06-29_05,2026-06-26_01,2025-10-01_01 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 adultscore=0 impostorscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 phishscore=0 classifier=typeunknown authscore=0 authtc= authcc= route=outbound adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.22.0-2606150000 definitions=main-2606290175 The IBM eHEA (Ethernet Host Ethernet Adapter) driver has been orphaned since April 2024 with no active maintainer stepping forward. This series removes the driver and associated references from the kernel tree. The driver was marked as an Orphan on April 18, 2024: commit 97ec32b583bb ("MAINTAINERS: eth: mark IBM eHEA as an Orphan") In the 13 months since, no maintainer has stepped forward to take ownership. The hardware was last supported on IBM POWER7 systems, which reached end-of-support in December 2020. The driver has received no functional updates since October 2022: commit 0e7ce23a917a ("net: ehea: fix possible memory leak in ehea_register_port()") And has only received mechanical API migrations affecting the entire kernel tree since that time. David Christensen (2): ehea: remove the ehea driver powerpc: remove ehea driver references MAINTAINERS | 5 - arch/powerpc/configs/ppc64_defconfig | 1 - arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 6 - drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/Kconfig | 9 - drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/Makefile | 1 - drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/Makefile | 7 - drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea.h | 477 --- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_ethtool.c | 277 -- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_hw.h | 253 -- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c | 3581 ------------------ drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_phyp.c | 612 --- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_phyp.h | 433 --- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_qmr.c | 999 ----- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_qmr.h | 390 -- 14 files changed, 7051 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/Makefile delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea.h delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_ethtool.c delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_hw.h delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_phyp.c delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_phyp.h delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_qmr.c delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_qmr.h -- 2.47.3