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On 13-02-20 10:05 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:09 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>>
>> 15) Orphan and delete a bunch of pre-historic networking drivers from
>>     Paul Gortmaker.
> 
> Nooo.... You killed the 3c501 and 3c503 drivers! Snif.
> 
> I wonder if they still worked..

I hope they're not really dead, because we still use them in several machines here
as secondary interfaces for test rigs and whatnot.

It's a tad early to be nuking support for such widespread devices.