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[82.69.66.36]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-49033d3515asm86408645e9.1.2026.05.21.09.55.50 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 21 May 2026 09:55:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 17:55:49 +0100 From: David Laight To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Andrew Lunn , Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/5] ethernet: 3c509: Bring driver back and make some fixes Message-ID: <20260521175549.70c27369@pumpkin> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.38; arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf) 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 Thu, 21 May 2026 13:45:26 +0100 (BST) "Maciej W. Rozycki" 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 >