From: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>,
Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>,
Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mips@vger.kernel.org" <linux-mips@vger.kernel.org>,
"OpenWrt Development List" <openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org>,
Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: lantiq_etop: remove driver
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:56:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <395bfe98-146c-4da3-9c2f-362f548da59f@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b2b53b6-d230-47bb-98d9-b7acfbfdd8ca@gmail.com>
On 1/29/2026 9:18 AM, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> This driver in mainline lost its in-tree user with commit cd93b4895ea5
> ("MIPS: lantiq: drop mips_machine support") in 2012. Since then it has
> had no in-tree user. Only user seems to be OpenWRT, with several changes
> to the in-tree driver version:
> target/linux/lantiq/patches-6.12/035-owrt-lantiq-wifi-and-ethernet-eeprom-handling.patch
> target/linux/lantiq/patches-6.12/028-NET-lantiq-various-etop-fixes.patch
> target/linux/lantiq/patches-6.12/701-NET-lantiq-etop-of-mido.patch
> So it seems the driver is maintained in OpenWrt only, except tree-wide
> in-tree changes. According to OpenWRT maintainers it would be ok to
> remove the driver in mainline and keep it downstream only (see linked
> conversation).
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/d80fef86-ba14-4bd4-bce5-4d61a75d591b@hauke-m.de/T/#t
> ---
Makes sense.
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-29 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-29 17:18 [PATCH net-next] net: lantiq_etop: remove driver Heiner Kallweit
2026-01-29 22:56 ` Jacob Keller [this message]
2026-01-30 6:37 ` Heiner Kallweit
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