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 statement above apply to all 3 drivers?
We're still maintaining an active sparc64 port for Debian, see [1]. So
does Gentoo [2].
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-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
these drivers.
Well, these drivers just work and I don't see why there should be regular
discussions about them or changes.
That's fair, but lack of discussion can also be signs of disuse, and
that's really the hunch I was following up on. Given what you and Karl
have said, I agree that we shouldn't remove these drivers. I'll stop
pursuing this unless there are new arguments to the contrary.
Ani
