[PATCH net-deletions] net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2026-04-21 at 13:57 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Herbert,
> 
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2026 at 13:51, Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 10:26:18AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > I suspect they don't have a huge amount of interest in the Solos any
> > > more, or the Geode-based SBC they sold with two of them on-board. But
> > > OpenWrt does still support them, and I even have one here (although no
> > > ADSL line to test it with). They were briefly popular as fully Linux-
> > > supported ADSL routers.
> > 
> > ADSL is history, it only ever made sense in rich countries where
> > physical copper cables were pre-installed in homes.  While rich
> > countries have moved to fibre, the rest of the world won't use
> > ADSL either because there is no copper cable to begin with.  So
> > it's actually cheaper to just lay a fibre cable for a new install.
> 
> I am afraid the move to fibre hasn't been completed yet.
> ADSL (VDSL2?) is still being used.

VSDL is different, and isn't ATM-based. But even ADSL is still in use;
in the UK some rural areas haven't got fibre yet.
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