On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 12:51 AM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Thanks - if it was any help to alleviate the maintenance burden, I'd be happy to help look after that section of the network drivers.
Removing the 8390 drivers would leave most m68k legacy systems withoutRight, any driver that is tied to a particular machine should generally
networking support.
Unless there is a clear and compelling reason to do so, these drivers
should not be removed.
be left working as long as we support that machine.
That particular driver is the one I rely on (via a weird ROM-port to ISA bridge). Would be useful even after ISA bus support is gone, in that case. Just saying. The Amiga and Mac drivers likewise. Though you may well argue that once ISA support has been removed, these can all be rewritten to support MMIO more directly (and more flexibly).
Two candidates I can see for removing would be smc-ultra andMAINTAINERS | 6 -
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/8390.c | 103 --
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/8390.h | 236 ----
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/8390p.c | 105 --
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Kconfig | 212 ---
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Makefile | 20 -
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/apne.c | 619 ---------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ax88796.c | 1022 ---------------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/axnet_cs.c | 1707 ------------------------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/etherh.c | 856 -------------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/hydra.c | 273 ----
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c | 1092 ----------------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/mac8390.c | 848 ------------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/mcf8390.c | 475 -------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne.c | 1004 ---------------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne2k-pci.c | 747 -----------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/pcnet_cs.c | 1708 -------------------------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/smc-ultra.c | 629 ---------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/stnic.c | 303 -----
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/wd.c | 574 ---------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/xsurf100.c | 377 ------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/zorro8390.c | 452 -------
wd80x3, both of them fairly rare ISA cards. The only other
ISA 8390 variant is the ne2000 driver (ne.c), which is probably
the most common ISA card overall, and I'd suggest leaving
that in place for as long as we support CONFIG_ISA.
There are a couple of other ISA-only network drivers (localtalk,
arcnet, ethernet/amd) that may be candidates for removal,
or perhaps some PCMCIA ones.
Arnd