From: "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
To: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ethernet: neterion: s2io: remove unused driver
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:24:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8477da83-2441-440c-80f1-66dac9700523@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADkSEUg5EqpKg2_X3LRc1CaQ2RVFNucJbuxDcHQxvjdLq1Qg1A@mail.gmail.com>
Le 24/01/2026 à 03:01, Ethan Nelson-Moore a écrit :
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> On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 10:11 AM Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> wrote:
>> Not sure there's value in removing the IDs from pci_ids.h. It may
>> lead to unnecessary conflicts later for stable and other backports.
>
> Patches to remove drivers are generally not backported to stable
> versions, even if the driver is broken, so I don't think this will be
> an issue. There is no point in keeping unused IDs around.
Yes and that's exactly the reason why removing unused IDs will be a problem.
Let's take an exemple: some patch adds PCI_DEVICE_ID_ARECA_1682 after
PCI_DEVICE_ID_ARECA_1681 in pci_ids.h in the mainline. That patch needs
to be backported and it conflicts with PCI_VENDOR_ID_S2IO which is not
anymore in the mainline but is still in stable.
Christophe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-24 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-23 3:30 [PATCH net-next] net: ethernet: neterion: s2io: remove unused driver Ethan Nelson-Moore
2026-01-23 18:11 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2026-01-24 2:01 ` Ethan Nelson-Moore
2026-01-24 7:24 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) [this message]
2026-01-24 23:32 ` Ethan Nelson-Moore
2026-01-25 18:11 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2026-01-25 21:41 ` Ethan Nelson-Moore
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