From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@intel.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Remove three Sun net drivers
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 02:36:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <800d35d9-4ced-052e-aebe-683f431356ae@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230106220020.1820147-1-anirudh.venkataramanan@intel.com>
Hello!
On 1/6/23 23:00, Anirudh Venkataramanan wrote:
> This series removes the Sun Cassini, LDOM vswitch and sunvnet drivers.
This would affect a large number of Linux on SPARC users. Please don't!
We're still maintaining an active sparc64 port for Debian, see [1]. So
does Gentoo [2].
> In a recent patch series that touched these drivers [1], it was suggested
> that these drivers should be removed completely. git logs suggest that
> there hasn't been any significant feature addition, improvement or fixes
> to user-visible bugs in a while. A web search didn't indicate any recent
> discussions or any evidence that there are users out there who care about
> these drivers.
Well, these drivers just work and I don't see why there should be regular
discussions about them or changes.
Adrian
> [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-12-09/
> [2] https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/
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From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@intel.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Remove three Sun net drivers
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 02:36:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <800d35d9-4ced-052e-aebe-683f431356ae@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230106220020.1820147-1-anirudh.venkataramanan@intel.com>
Hello!
On 1/6/23 23:00, Anirudh Venkataramanan wrote:
> This series removes the Sun Cassini, LDOM vswitch and sunvnet drivers.
This would affect a large number of Linux on SPARC users. Please don't!
We're still maintaining an active sparc64 port for Debian, see [1]. So
does Gentoo [2].
> In a recent patch series that touched these drivers [1], it was suggested
> that these drivers should be removed completely. git logs suggest that
> there hasn't been any significant feature addition, improvement or fixes
> to user-visible bugs in a while. A web search didn't indicate any recent
> discussions or any evidence that there are users out there who care about
> these drivers.
Well, these drivers just work and I don't see why there should be regular
discussions about them or changes.
Adrian
> [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-12-09/
> [2] https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/
--
.''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
: :' : Debian Developer
`. `' Physicist
`- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-07 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-06 22:00 [PATCH net-next 0/7] Remove three Sun net drivers Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 22:00 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 22:00 ` [PATCH net-next 1/7] ethernet: Remove the Sun Cassini driver Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 22:00 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-07 12:25 ` Anatoly Pugachev
2023-01-07 12:25 ` Anatoly Pugachev
2023-01-07 19:16 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-07 19:16 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 22:00 ` [PATCH net-next 2/7] PCI: Remove PCI IDs used by " Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 22:00 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-10 15:26 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2023-01-10 15:26 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2023-01-10 16:51 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-10 16:51 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 22:00 ` [PATCH net-next 3/7] powerpc: configs: Remove reference to CONFIG_CASSINI Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 22:00 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 22:00 ` [PATCH net-next 4/7] mips: " Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 22:00 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 22:00 ` [PATCH net-next 5/7] ethernet: Remove the Sun LDOM vswitch and sunvnet drivers Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 22:00 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 22:00 ` [PATCH net-next 6/7] sunvnet: Remove event tracing file Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 22:00 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 22:00 ` [PATCH net-next 7/7] sparc: configs: Remove references to CONFIG_SUNVNET and CONFIG_LDMVSW Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 22:00 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-07 12:14 ` Anatoly Pugachev
2023-01-07 12:14 ` Anatoly Pugachev
2023-01-06 22:44 ` [PATCH net-next 0/7] Remove three Sun net drivers Karl Volz
2023-01-06 22:44 ` Karl Volz
2023-01-06 23:10 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 23:10 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 23:25 ` Karl Volz
2023-01-06 23:25 ` Karl Volz
2023-01-07 1:36 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [this message]
2023-01-07 1:36 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-01-07 2:04 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-07 2:04 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-07 2:15 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-07 2:15 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-07 2:24 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-01-07 2:24 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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