From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@intel.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>,
linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@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: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 18:15:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230106181540.61d4cad0@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50dfdff7-81c7-ab40-a6c5-e5e73959b780@intel.com>
On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 18:04:54 -0800 Anirudh Venkataramanan wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> That's fair, but lack of discussion can also be signs of disuse, and
> that's really the hunch I was following up on.
Lack of feedback, too. Some of these drivers are missing entries
in MAINTAINERS and patches don't get review tags from anyone.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-07 2:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ 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 ` [PATCH net-next 1/7] ethernet: Remove the Sun Cassini driver Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-07 12:25 ` Anatoly Pugachev
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
2023-01-10 15:26 ` Bjorn Helgaas
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 ` [PATCH net-next 4/7] mips: " 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 ` [PATCH net-next 6/7] sunvnet: Remove event tracing file Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 22:00 ` [PATCH net-next 7/7] sparc: configs: Remove references to CONFIG_SUNVNET and CONFIG_LDMVSW Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-07 12:14 ` Anatoly Pugachev
2023-01-06 22:44 ` [PATCH net-next 0/7] Remove three Sun net drivers Karl Volz
2023-01-06 23:10 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-06 23:25 ` Karl Volz
2023-01-07 1:36 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-01-07 2:04 ` Anirudh Venkataramanan
2023-01-07 2:15 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-01-07 2:24 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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