Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Remove three Sun net drivers

2023-01-06 Thread Karl Volz
On 1/6/23 15:00, Anirudh Venkataramanan wrote: This series removes the Sun Cassini, LDOM vswitch and sunvnet drivers. 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 signific

Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Remove three Sun net drivers

2023-01-06 Thread Karl Volz
On 1/6/23 16:10, Anirudh Venkataramanan wrote: On 1/6/2023 2:44 PM, Karl Volz wrote: On 1/6/23 15:00, Anirudh Venkataramanan wrote: This series removes the Sun Cassini, LDOM vswitch and sunvnet drivers. In a recent patch series that touched these drivers [1], it was suggested that these

Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Remove three Sun net drivers

2023-01-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/7/23 03:04, Anirudh Venkataramanan wrote: On 1/6/2023 5:36 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: 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 d

Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Remove three Sun net drivers

2023-01-06 Thread Jakub Kicinski
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 >

Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Remove three Sun net drivers

2023-01-06 Thread Anirudh Venkataramanan
On 1/6/2023 5:36 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: 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! Thanks for chiming in. Does your stateme

Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Remove three Sun net drivers

2023-01-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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 r

Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Remove three Sun net drivers

2023-01-06 Thread Anirudh Venkataramanan
On 1/6/2023 2:44 PM, Karl Volz wrote: On 1/6/23 15:00, Anirudh Venkataramanan wrote: This series removes the Sun Cassini, LDOM vswitch and sunvnet drivers. In a recent patch series that touched these drivers [1], it was suggested that these drivers should be removed completely. git logs sugge

[PATCH net-next 0/7] Remove three Sun net drivers

2023-01-06 Thread Anirudh Venkataramanan
This series removes the Sun Cassini, LDOM vswitch and sunvnet drivers. 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-v