| Message ID | 1357582618-17183-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com |
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From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 13:16:57 -0500 > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux.git delete-8390-EISA No objections, pulled, thanks Paul. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
I'd like to propose that we get rid of these old 8390 EISA drivers. Of the five deleted here, I wrote four -- and while that doesn't give me any authority for deletion above anyone else, it does at least allow me to comment on the absolute absence of anyone reaching out to the driver author for assistance in the last dozen years. Eventually we'll probably get rid of EISA bus support, since in x86, the hardware is close to 20 years old and already too resource constrained to be useful today. However there might still be a few DEC Alpha enthusiasts with old EISA machines kept alive, and so I expect we'll have to wait a bit longer to get unanimous agreement to proceed with the full EISA removal (although I'd love to be proven wrong on that). Most of the DEC Alpha machines shipped in a PCI configuration, and even the few that were EISA had DEC tulip based ethernet and no reason to be needing the inferior 8390 technology. So the interest here for any possible DEC enthusiasts with EISA boxes about these old 8390 drivers should be nil. These really were rare cards -- in fact the smc-ultra32 is the only one that I'd ever seen in person. Even back in the mid 90's when the drivers were written, I would guess that the user base was less than 10 people across all of them. The following patch was created with --irreversible-delete for ease of review (it skips showing the content of files that are deleted); however the complete patch can be pulled as per below. Paul. --- The following changes since commit 483f777266f5da205459c290994bd3cda5f1f6bc: drivers/net: remove orphaned references to micro channel (2013-01-06 21:13:33 -0800) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux.git delete-8390-EISA for you to fetch changes up to bca94cffabf5c9f2399da34eab00bd534bf3735b: drivers/net: delete 8390 based EISA drivers. (2013-01-07 10:24:26 -0500) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Gortmaker (1): drivers/net: delete 8390 based EISA drivers. drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Kconfig | 66 +---- drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Makefile | 5 - drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ac3200.c | 431 ----------------------------- drivers/net/ethernet/8390/es3210.c | 445 ------------------------------ drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lne390.c | 433 ----------------------------- drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne3210.c | 346 ------------------------ drivers/net/ethernet/8390/smc-ultra32.c | 463 -------------------------------- 7 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2187 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ac3200.c delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/es3210.c delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lne390.c delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne3210.c delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/smc-ultra32.c -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html