From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 963732F3608 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2026 02:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1770085256; cv=none; b=UqJ57On/bc2fr+jxmK44atoUtB3BylyEXIy9CfBAsPA4v4Wl3kxp3h8TVUaAWSDdK/KhgQGAivNiA6EtTYPvBUjRcndaSAggW+eFQkn/jUwAQq299e1lmlDZ1qbL6Smuc+B7x0xuNcnaGkDJvFokktNqfVrff98/CF7SJAAWgII= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1770085256; c=relaxed/simple; bh=xymFwFpJdFhDLLlEMBm1kLd8cDzjnY7GN2CpPvbJg1g=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=d650t5JPyYcLAI6ZF/YUC3hy0Mtko4opLA7NhkZercg5Sx0LuUTe+pLb3FwiSBQakQCTe5Zh2RMQPlFuFMZZ4Q4DL+pJKVLynOU50pH0wgLOaw/GFuU0/bqurfx4eQ57dJTsvDitYyGwK+gxFLvhrVq07UYlP5Hja5YFN70hRbw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=HifA20UV; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="HifA20UV" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D6F55C2BC86; Tue, 3 Feb 2026 02:20:55 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1770085256; bh=xymFwFpJdFhDLLlEMBm1kLd8cDzjnY7GN2CpPvbJg1g=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=HifA20UVBMCmWTSZVgmsE8IksS/j3bGxAkbJbLUZ6Yzts7dTDIxL19t6wXzQDSHIp 0VMhx95yt7IjtBna9ZFh1/ja4ycmcM/Av/sMBxE+DiBszAmpRihCdFScpjH+yfUtYK eKI1vNHG5i40SKPRXMouGsFdvEyM4CPzZNfXiu0f/5dwy4og94NX54QaXlMF58Smu0 +zlJzdfdgeT1ROoQcEbi44Y58Gk2bmhoaPCdUwQDTdNTMe5IOtiLj34F9DLK77kRw0 HCFlLcORC3wY2bcPllpcvBbthLMMmAKozPHOVvt6+p384zY9qEQU5BQcqX3a21I4qz wB+/zmPzZyoLA== Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 18:20:54 -0800 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Ethan Nelson-Moore Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Don Fry , Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: ethernet: pcnet32: remove VLB support Message-ID: <20260202182054.0a755aea@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20260131012119.25863-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com> References: <20260131012119.25863-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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..) -- pw-bot: reject