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* [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: remove the orphaned IBM eHEA driver
@ 2026-06-29 21:13 David Christensen
  2026-06-29 21:13 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] ehea: remove the ehea driver David Christensen
  2026-06-29 21:13 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] powerpc: remove ehea driver references David Christensen
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Christensen @ 2026-06-29 21:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David S . Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni,
	Michael Ellerman, Nicholas Piggin, Christophe Leroy
  Cc: netdev, linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel, David Christensen

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

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2.47.3


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