Re: [PATCH v2 00/53] MIPS: SGI-IP27: add support for the IP35 (Bedrock hub) machines

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:05:55 +0200 Imre Kaloz wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:56:11 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > I don't think you answered my question, or at least I'm too daft 
> > to catch what you mean. IP35 was not supported so nobody is using
> > it with Linux today. You're adding the support, and since it's 
> > a platform discontinued 20 years ago there's 0 chance of real users 
> > of any of this code.
> > 
> > What am I missing?  
> 
> The users are the people running these machines, the same population
> as for IP27 and IP30, and the ioc3-eth driver in net/ exists for them
> today. The series was developed and tested on a Fuel and a Tezro in
> regular use, so "nobody is using it with Linux" is true only in the
> sense that the support isn't merged yet; that was equally true of IP30
> when it went in for 5.5, and of every port before it.

Not sure if you followed the discussions at the recent maintainer
summit but we are now allowed to be more opinionated about code
we merge. Merging code just to test that code seems like entertainment
for the authors, not useful development.

> The kernel's test for a platform isn't commercial relevance, it's a
> maintainer, which Thomas is, and testers, which this series has. If
> netdev doesn't want to spend time on it, say so and I'll ask Thomas to
> take the two ioc3-eth patches through the MIPS tree.

Not how subsystem boundaries work. You have to repost the two
networking patches to get them merged via net-next. Our CIs
will not trigger for partial posting to netdev.