Re: [PATCH net-next] net: hisilicon: Remove orphan femac driver

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski

Date: Wed Nov 04 2026 - 10:00:57 EST


On Wed, Nov 04, 2026 at 08:50:34AM -0600, Rob Herring (Arm) wrote:
> Remove the HiSilicon femac driver as it is not used on any upstream SoC.
> The hi3516cv300 only has clock, pwm, and this driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../bindings/net/hisilicon-femac-mdio.txt | 22 -
> .../bindings/net/hisilicon-femac.txt | 41 -
> drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/Kconfig | 12 -
> drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/Makefile | 1 -
> drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hisi_femac.c | 976 ------------------
> drivers/net/mdio/Kconfig | 7 -
> drivers/net/mdio/Makefile | 1 -
> drivers/net/mdio/mdio-hisi-femac.c | 150 ---
> 8 files changed, 1210 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-femac-mdio.txt
> delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-femac.txt
> delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hisi_femac.c
> delete mode 100644 drivers/net/mdio/mdio-hisi-femac.c

Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Krzysztof