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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman , Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net 00/18] Remove a number of ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet drivers Message-ID: <87441489-afea-44c4-afd9-8f1693b32ce6@lunn.ch> References: <20260421-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-v1-0-69517c689d1f@lunn.ch> 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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260421-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-v1-0-69517c689d1f@lunn.ch> On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 02:31:03PM -0500, Andrew Lunn wrote: > These old drivers have not been much of a Maintenance burden until > recently. Now there are more newbies using AI and fuzzers finding > issues, resulting in more work for Maintainers. Fixing these old > drivers make little sense, if it is not clear they have users. > > These are all ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet devices, mostly from the last > century, a couple from 2001 or 2002. It seems unlikely they are still > used. However, remove them one patch at a time so they can be brought > back if somebody still has the hardware, runs modern kernels and wants > to take up the roll of driver Maintainer. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn > --- > Andrew Lunn (18): There should be 18 patches in this series, but it seems like b4 send and exim are not working together too tell and have truncated it to 10 :-( I maybe have a fix, but i will wait the usual 24 hours before retrying. > drivers: net: 3com: 3c509: Remove this driver > drivers: net: 3com: 3c515: Remove this driver > drivers: net: 3com: 3c574: Remove this driver > drivers: net: 3com: 3c589: Remove this driver > drivers: net: 3com: 3c59x: Remove this driver > drivers: net: amd: Remove hplance and mvme147 > drivers: net: amd: lance: Remove this driver > drivers: net: amd: nmclan: Remove this driver > drivers: net: smsc: smc9194: Remove this driver > drivers: net: smsc: smc91c92: Remove this driver > drivers: net: cirrus: cs89x0: Remove this driver > drivers: net: cirrus: mac89x0: Remove this driver > drivers: net: fujitsu: fmvj18x: Remove this driver > drivers: net: xircom: xirc2ps: Remove this driver > drivers: net: 8390: AX88190: Remove this driver > drivers: net: 8390: pcnet: Remove this driver > drivers: net: 8390: ultra: Remove this driver > drivers: net: 8390: wd80x3: Remove this driver You should be able to tell from this what is missing, and i would like to remove. Andrew --- pw-bot: cr