From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool-next v1] ethtool: remove ixgb support
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:41:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb32154b-142a-bafb-57be-e4a7bb8e37fe@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230323195424.1623401-1-jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
On 3/23/23 12:54, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
> The ixgb driver is no longer in use so just remove the associated code.
> The product was discontinued in 2010.
That is the case with most of the pretty dumping tools that ethtool
contains, yet we kept them because people might still have those
Ethernet NICs around, why should we treat ixgb differently here? The
amount of maintenance for this file is basically close to zero.
--
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-23 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-23 19:54 [PATCH ethtool-next v1] ethtool: remove ixgb support Jesse Brandeburg
2023-03-23 23:41 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2023-04-18 23:12 ` Michal Kubecek
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