Re: [PATCH net 00/18] Remove a number of ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet drivers

[Andrew Lunn]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 02:31:03PM -0500, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> These old drivers have not been much of a Maintenance burden until
> recently. Now there are more newbies using AI and fuzzers finding
> issues, resulting in more work for Maintainers. Fixing these old
> drivers make little sense, if it is not clear they have users.
> 
> These are all ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet devices, mostly from the last
> century, a couple from 2001 or 2002. It seems unlikely they are still
> used. However, remove them one patch at a time so they can be brought
> back if somebody still has the hardware, runs modern kernels and wants
> to take up the roll of driver Maintainer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
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> Andrew Lunn (18):

There should be 18 patches in this series, but it seems like b4 send
and exim are not working together too tell and have truncated it to 10
:-(

I maybe have a fix, but i will wait the usual 24 hours before
retrying.

>       drivers: net: 3com: 3c509: Remove this driver
>       drivers: net: 3com: 3c515: Remove this driver
>       drivers: net: 3com: 3c574: Remove this driver
>       drivers: net: 3com: 3c589: Remove this driver
>       drivers: net: 3com: 3c59x: Remove this driver
>       drivers: net: amd: Remove hplance and mvme147
>       drivers: net: amd: lance: Remove this driver
>       drivers: net: amd: nmclan: Remove this driver
>       drivers: net: smsc: smc9194: Remove this driver
>       drivers: net: smsc: smc91c92: Remove this driver
>       drivers: net: cirrus: cs89x0: Remove this driver
>       drivers: net: cirrus: mac89x0: Remove this driver
>       drivers: net: fujitsu: fmvj18x: Remove this driver
>       drivers: net: xircom: xirc2ps: Remove this driver
>       drivers: net: 8390: AX88190: Remove this driver
>       drivers: net: 8390: pcnet: Remove this driver
>       drivers: net: 8390: ultra: Remove this driver
>       drivers: net: 8390: wd80x3: Remove this driver

You should be able to tell from this what is missing, and i would like
to remove.

    Andrew

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