[PATCH net-next] eth: de4x5: remove support for Generic DECchip & DIGITAL EtherWORKS PCI/EISA

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

 	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 at kernel.org>
>
> 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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