Re: [PATCH net-next] net: wan: remove the lanmedia (lmc) driver

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On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 09:15:48PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> The driver for LAN Media WAN interfaces spews build warnings on
> microblaze. The virt_to_bus() calls discard the volatile keyword.
> The right thing to do would be to migrate this driver to a modern
> DMA API but it seems unlikely anyone is actually using it.
> There had been no fixes or functional changes here since
> the git era begun.
> 
> Let's remove this driver, there isn't much changing in the APIs,
> if users come forward we can apologize and revert.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220321144013.440d7fc0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> CC: Krzysztof Hałasa <khalasa@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Andrew Stanley-Jones <asj@xxxxxxxx>
> CC: Rob Braun <bbraun@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Michael Graff <explorer@xxxxxxx>,
> CC: Matt Thomas <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # MIPS
> CC: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  arch/mips/configs/gpr_defconfig  |    1 -
>  arch/mips/configs/mtx1_defconfig |    1 -
>  drivers/net/wan/Kconfig          |   28 -
>  drivers/net/wan/Makefile         |    2 -
>  drivers/net/wan/lmc/Makefile     |   18 -
>  drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc.h        |   33 -
>  drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_debug.c  |   65 -
>  drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_debug.h  |   52 -
>  drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_ioctl.h  |  255 ----
>  drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_main.c   | 2009 ------------------------------
>  drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_media.c  | 1206 ------------------
>  drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_proto.c  |  106 --
>  drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_proto.h  |   18 -
>  drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_var.h    |  468 -------
>  14 files changed, 4262 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/net/wan/lmc/Makefile
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc.h
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_debug.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_debug.h
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_ioctl.h
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_main.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_media.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_proto.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_proto.h
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_var.h

Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

-- 
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good idea.                                                [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]



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