From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] myri_sbus: remove driver Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:51:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20110620.125133.311330932319985237.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20110620193859.GA19114@myri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, gallatin@myri.com To: jon.mason@myri.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:58380 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750945Ab1FTTvx (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:51:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110620193859.GA19114@myri.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jon Mason Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:39:00 -0500 > Remove the myri_sbus driver. Why? > * There is no possibility of ethernet mode on this adapter, so it's > Myrinet only. > * It won't inter-op with modern versions of Myrinet, and thus can only > work with legacy adapters. > * There are no in-kernel Linux drivers for the PCI version of this > adapter, so it only can work on ~15 year old Sun hardware. > > It's long in the tooth, let's take it to the knackers. > > Signed-off-by: Jon Mason Sniff sniff... applied.