From: Anatoly Pugachev <matorola@gmail.com>
To: Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, 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 1/7] ethernet: Remove the Sun Cassini driver
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 15:25:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADxRZqw2K1QT2cEa6U_4DUxgYrwMiZzU4Qy6iXVm2WRTYVa=xw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230106220020.1820147-2-anirudh.venkataramanan@intel.com>
On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 1:00 AM Anirudh Venkataramanan
<anirudh.venkataramanan@intel.com> wrote:
>
> In a recent patch series that touched this driver [1], it was suggested
> that this driver 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
> this driver. Thus, remove this driver.
>
> Notes:
>
> checkpatch complains "WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does
> MAINTAINERS need updating?". The files being removed don't have their
> own entries in the MAINTAINERS file, so there's nothing to remove.
>
> checkpatch also complains about the long lore link below.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/99629223-ac1b-0f82-50b8-ea307b3b0197@intel.com/T/#t
>
> Suggested-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@intel.com>
Do we drop/delete a working functionality by only taking in account
git activity ?
What is a proper way to decline patch series (vs Acked-by) ?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-07 12:25 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 [this message]
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
2023-01-07 2:24 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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