From: "Krzysztof Hałasa" <khalasa@piap.pl>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, pabeni@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Stanley-Jones <asj@cban.com>, Rob Braun <bbraun@vix.com>,
Michael Graff <explorer@vix.com>,
Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
tsbogend@alpha.franken.de, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org,
linus.walleij@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: wan: remove the lanmedia (lmc) driver
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 13:46:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k0c2fn9h.fsf@t19.piap.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220406041548.643503-1-kuba@kernel.org> (Jakub Kicinski's message of "Tue, 5 Apr 2022 21:15:48 -0700")
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> writes:
> The driver for LAN Media WAN interfaces spews build warnings on
> microblaze. The virt_to_bus() calls discard the volatile keyword.
> The right thing to do would be to migrate this driver to a modern
> DMA API but it seems unlikely anyone is actually using it.
> There had been no fixes or functional changes here since
> the git era begun.
>
> Let's remove this driver, there isn't much changing in the APIs,
> if users come forward we can apologize and revert.
I wouldn't hold my breath, though :-)
Acked-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khalasa@piap.pl>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-06 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-06 4:15 [PATCH net-next] net: wan: remove the lanmedia (lmc) driver Jakub Kicinski
2022-04-06 7:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-04-06 11:11 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2022-04-06 11:46 ` Krzysztof Hałasa [this message]
2022-04-06 14:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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