Hi Ben,
On Sat, 21 May 2022, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Wed, 2022-05-18 at 20:13 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
Looks like almost all changes to this driver had been tree-wide
refactoring since git era begun. There is one commit from Al
15 years ago which could potentially be fixing a real bug.
The driver is using virt_to_bus() and is a real magnet for pointless
cleanups. It seems unlikely to have real users. Let's try to shed
this maintenance burden.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Removing this driver will kill support for some rather old PowerMac
models (some PowerBooks I think, paulus would know). No objection on my
part, though. I doubt people still use these things with new kernels
but ... who knows ? :-)
Aren't these PCI, and thus working fine with the PCI-only DE2104X
(dc2104x) or TULIP (dc2114x) drivers?
IIRC, I've initially used the de4x5 driver on Alpha (UDB/Multia) or PPC
(CHRP), but switched to the TULIP driver later (that was before the
dc2104x/dc2114x driver split, hence a loooong time ago).
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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