Re: [PATCH net-next v2 5/6] net: cpmac: remove driver to prepare for platform removal

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Thu Oct 05 2023 - 11:53:03 EST


On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 16:08:55 +0200 Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 08:15:26AM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > AR7 is going to be removed from the Kernel, so remove its networking
> > support in form of the cpmac driver. This allows us to remove the
> > platform because this driver includes a platform specific header.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Changes since v1:
> > * added ack
> >
> > MAINTAINERS | 6 -
> > drivers/net/ethernet/ti/Kconfig | 9 +-
> > drivers/net/ethernet/ti/Makefile | 1 -
> > drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpmac.c | 1251 ------------------------------
> > 4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1266 deletions(-)
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpmac.c
> > [..]
>
> is it ok for network people to route this patch via mips-next tree
> or do you want to apply to net-next ?

We have a ".remove callback should return void" conversion from Uwe
queued for the deleted driver (231ea972ccaf5b). The conflict will be
really trivial, but I guess no conflict beats trivial conflict so better
if we take it? :S