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[82.69.66.36]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-46c22c68239sm276534f8f.36.2026.06.23.13.40.07 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:40:05 +0100 From: David Laight To: Michael Pratte Cc: Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Eric Dumazet , Ethan Nelson-Moore , Andrew Lunn , Simon Horman , "David S . Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: s2io: driver still in use - please reconsider removal Message-ID: <20260623214005.0602374d@pumpkin> In-Reply-To: <20260623112133.752195-1-slatoncomputers@gmail.com> References: <20260623112133.752195-1-slatoncomputers@gmail.com> 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 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:21:33 -0500 Michael Pratte wrote: > Hi, > > Commit aba0138eb7d7 ("net: ethernet: neterion: s2io: remove unused > driver") removed s2io in v7.0 as "highly unlikely to still be used." > It is still in use here: an Exar Xframe-II (PCI 17d5:5832) in a > Supermicro X5DA8. Are you really using a dual socket netburst P4 system! They weren't really any good when new :-) David