From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C1DAC74A5B for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2023 23:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231154AbjCWXmE (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:42:04 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:42480 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229508AbjCWXmC (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:42:02 -0400 Received: from mail-pl1-x632.google.com (mail-pl1-x632.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::632]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 314C53AAD for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:41:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-pl1-x632.google.com with SMTP id ix20so363955plb.3 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:41:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; t=1679614917; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:references:cc:to :content-language:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=fDpD/ybITO7liyBq9HCXQZTyhMpHZd69iRN42WeD4FY=; b=iLQ3E4sQhR2xbDjqbn4tZLin0FUNeeq0Mzd9VqlnovSBTN6zTDZS/ILSjyxz9g7iwd TWq/WErRH+OM4xyKU+sY46vYLQC1/nRLswUwkmCWBFD60TaA1G8JKXZXWKn4jM2nPXio SEppHnJfbtmUHW8ppJZZ88PmLacgiNzIm2XFpbWOMtMi/eTedy5Nss3xQYEEfwAbd+bR pAXJE6plFxzjBlfuHxPqD+ukFBRwrn2gurK7UEi/6xcJdfbzOjtTlkfQIyHpyzqJQro7 UhtSGeL3l/pvpRY7+tn+8j+TKGaj37QvTr9uwhN9WMUbOxAIpHwpPM8yUh0MzNb1XOvz QyfA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; t=1679614917; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:references:cc:to :content-language:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=fDpD/ybITO7liyBq9HCXQZTyhMpHZd69iRN42WeD4FY=; b=am+zcAb8ykhlPoQr7tZ7Rj3RB/ocdpAT8nhsOGC7coCrY3CxHM1njA5fh50GigOI1K zIJFn07wu6UYruIzBuEQdBB6t7eSgLNad3NB/wQ1QEviN7Wsy74MZscBO+mZVszQ0kMs VI3Xdy31D8+ML9eKQluf1epI+WM5Ei6cc5iiqAVZirEb3tgEiQYWjyo5tkiDcR9fHwcK O12vyyHp9swU/ckoju9bOPj70nRjGMDHC9SmEAwPCcpv6bhl2xL39KOHf85fLktRkXg0 bQ7tX0bJeKQpI9kJgh2R3fSnDYQngh/mVlyOT9XW3pT1w+SAEfIWcv6LhNyEpcqhUMyx NqMw== X-Gm-Message-State: AO0yUKWy/iBUxJLV3oV6CFsQkW6slbwrtBXCV/4e7wFNYthXx6FNn0gE JQLlmHtElEdQIfgIgrwAhm8= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AK7set8AdVzGbcCCjNVl7zNyo4BOMGxVzKW3lhvY72TssjuXEjzdLxYjHFrAK8Xwq2BjAAfihUA0fw== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6a20:7a8a:b0:cb:ec5f:3c5b with SMTP id u10-20020a056a207a8a00b000cbec5f3c5bmr1038342pzh.18.1679614917450; Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:41:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.67.48.245] ([192.19.223.252]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id s14-20020a62e70e000000b00625ddb1f4c5sm12488138pfh.114.2023.03.23.16.41.54 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:41:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:41:50 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.7.1 Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool-next v1] ethtool: remove ixgb support Content-Language: en-US To: Jesse Brandeburg , Michal Kubecek Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Tony Nguyen References: <20230323195424.1623401-1-jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> From: Florian Fainelli In-Reply-To: <20230323195424.1623401-1-jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org 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