Re: [PATCH net 12/18] drivers: net: cirrus: mac89x0: Remove this driver

From: Daniel Palmer

Date: Tue Apr 21 2026 - 17:34:53 EST


Hi Andrew,

On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 at 05:01, Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The mac89x0 was written by Russell Nelson in 1996. It is an MAC
> device, so unlikely to be used with modern kernels.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

I think I might be using this with a mac and I'm running mainline.
FWIW the m68k mac stuff still works perfectly fine with modern kernels
and there are people using it.