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[net-next,v3,0/2] net: ethernet: dwmac: oxnas glue removal

Message ID 20230731-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-v3-0-a1bddb085629@linaro.org
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Series net: ethernet: dwmac: oxnas glue removal |

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Neil Armstrong July 31, 2023, 2:41 p.m. UTC 
  With [1] removing MPCore SMP support, this makes the OX820 barely usable,
associated with a clear lack of maintainance, development and migration to
dt-schema it's clear that Linux support for OX810 and OX820 should be removed.

In addition, the OX810 hasn't been booted for years and isn't even present
in an ARM config file.

For the OX820, lack of USB and SATA support makes the platform not usable
in the current Linux support and relies on off-tree drivers hacked from the
vendor (defunct for years) sources.

The last users are in the OpenWRT distribution, and today's removal means
support will still be in stable 6.1 LTS kernel until end of 2026.

If someone wants to take over the development even with lack of SMP, I'll
be happy to hand off maintainance.

It has been a fun time adding support for this architecture, but it's time
to get over!

This patchset only removes net changes, and is derived from:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230630-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-v2-0-fb6ab3dea87c@linaro.org

Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
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Changes in v3:
- Removed applied changes
- Added Andy's tags
- Reduced for net
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230630-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-v2-0-fb6ab3dea87c@linaro.org

Changes in v2:
- s/maintainance/maintenance/
- added acked/review tags
- dropped already applied patches
- drop RFC
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230331-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-v1-0-5bd58fd1dd1f@linaro.org

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Neil Armstrong (2):
      net: stmmac: dwmac-oxnas: remove obsolete dwmac glue driver
      dt-bindings: net: oxnas-dwmac: remove obsolete bindings

 .../devicetree/bindings/net/oxnas-dwmac.txt        |  41 ----
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig        |  11 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Makefile       |   1 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-oxnas.c  | 244 ---------------------
 4 files changed, 297 deletions(-)
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base-commit: ec89391563792edd11d138a853901bce76d11f44
change-id: 20230331-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-a62e9d96feee

Best regards,

Comments

patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org Aug. 2, 2023, 9:10 a.m. UTC | #1 
Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>:

On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:41:09 +0200 you wrote:
> With [1] removing MPCore SMP support, this makes the OX820 barely usable,
> associated with a clear lack of maintainance, development and migration to
> dt-schema it's clear that Linux support for OX810 and OX820 should be removed.
> 
> In addition, the OX810 hasn't been booted for years and isn't even present
> in an ARM config file.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next,v3,1/2] net: stmmac: dwmac-oxnas: remove obsolete dwmac glue driver
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/a67fa91130ca
  - [net-next,v3,2/2] dt-bindings: net: oxnas-dwmac: remove obsolete bindings
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/6d7d66ac9ce1

You are awesome, thank you!