From: Ursula Braun <ubraun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:56:00 +0100 > CHPID type "OSN" is a device type which had been used by IBM product > "Communication Controller for Linux". This product has reached end of > service in March 2016. Thus OSN support can be removed from the qeth > driver. > > Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> IBM can certainly decide what physical products it wants to support or not, but this doesn't directly apply to what the Linux kernel driver supports. We do not unilaterally remove support for a chip from a driver just because the vendor decides to stop supporting that chip. In fact this is one of the main benefits and value-adds of Linux. I'm not applying a patch series that removes support for a chipset for this reason, sorry. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
