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

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Andrew,

On Tue, 21 Apr 2026 at 21:31, Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> 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.

Thanks for your series!

> These are all ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet devices, mostly from the last

Only the drivers that depend solely on ISA or PCMCIA are drivers
for ISA and PCMCIA devices.

These are not:

-       depends on (PCI || EISA) && HAS_IOPORT_MAP
-       depends on DIO
-       depends on MVME147
-       depends on ARM || (COMPILE_TEST && !PPC)
-       depends on MAC

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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