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From: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/5] ethernet: 3c509: Bring driver back and make some fixes
Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 17:55:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260521175549.70c27369@pumpkin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2605211329000.1450@angie.orcam.me.uk>

On Thu, 21 May 2026 13:45:26 +0100 (BST)
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 May 2026, Andrew Lunn wrote:
...
>  NB as I point out in the cover letter I made sure there's been no change 
> to binary code produced, so I expect no fallout, and as we discussed with 
> Jakub the removal of the driver broke `git blame' anyway, so there should 
> be no cost associated with the cleanup.

Can 'we' make sure that the commit that re-instates it has the git tag of the
old version in the commit message.
That lets people go back across the remove-add.

-- David

> 
>  So as I say, may you both please weigh in pros and cons and let me know 
> of the outcome?  I'll then proceed accordingly.
> 
>   Maciej
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2026-05-21 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-20 11:18 [PATCH net 0/5] ethernet: 3c509: Bring driver back and make some fixes Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-05-20 11:18 ` [PATCH net 1/5] Revert "drivers: net: 3com: 3c509: Remove this driver" Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-05-20 11:18 ` [PATCH net 2/5] ethernet: 3c509: Fix AUI transceiver type selection Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-05-20 11:18 ` [PATCH net 3/5] ethernet: 3c509: Add GPL 2.0 SPDX license identifier Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-05-20 11:19 ` [PATCH net 4/5] ethernet: 3c509: Update documentation to match MAINTAINERS Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-05-20 11:19 ` [PATCH net 5/5] ethernet: 3c509: Fix most coding style issues Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-05-21 12:17 ` [PATCH net 0/5] ethernet: 3c509: Bring driver back and make some fixes Andrew Lunn
2026-05-21 12:45   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-05-21 16:55     ` David Laight [this message]
2026-05-21 17:49       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-05-21 15:27   ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-05-21 17:55     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-05-21 15:28 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-05-21 18:01   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-05-21 15:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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