From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Don Fry <pcnet32@frontier.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: ethernet: pcnet32: remove VLB support
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 18:20:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260202182054.0a755aea@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260131012119.25863-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:21:19 -0800 Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote:
> The VLB bus is very obsolete and last appeared on P5 Pentium-era
> hardware. Support for it has been removed from other drivers, and it is
> highly unlikely anyone is using it with modern Linux kernels. The VLB
> auto-probing code also has the potential to affect other devices that
> use the same I/O ports in unexpected ways. Remove support for VLB cards
> from the driver. This allows the code managing device instances to be
> simplified significantly.
Unless the maintainers acks this I think we should just wait until
we can delete this driver completely. Unless this unblocks removal
of some VLB-related APIs (which I wasn't able to spot..)
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pw-bot: reject
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-03 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-31 1:21 [PATCH net-next v2] net: ethernet: pcnet32: remove VLB support Ethan Nelson-Moore
2026-02-03 2:20 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2026-02-03 5:32 ` Ethan Nelson-Moore
2026-02-03 22:57 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-02-04 3:06 ` Ethan Nelson-Moore
2026-02-05 0:21 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-02-05 0:44 ` OnesuchDev
2026-02-05 23:35 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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