On 1/28/26 21:23, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
This driver in mainline lost its in-tree user with commit
cd93b4895ea5 ("MIPS: lantiq: drop mips_machine support")
in 2012. Since then it has had no in-tree user.
Only (?) user seems to be OpenWRT, with several changes to
the in-tree driver version:
target/linux/lantiq/patches-6.12/035-owrt-lantiq-wifi-and-ethernet-eeprom-handling.patch
target/linux/lantiq/patches-6.12/028-NET-lantiq-various-etop-fixes.patch
target/linux/lantiq/patches-6.12/701-NET-lantiq-etop-of-mido.patch
So it seems the driver is maintained in OpenWrt only
(except tree-wide in-tree changes).
To me this leaves two questions:
- Move this driver to OpenWRT completely?
- Or mainline all downstream changes, maintain driver in
mainline, and mainline also the users of this driver?
Hi,
I think dropping this from the mainline kernel is fine, if it causes
efforts for you.
This is the Ethernet of the Lantiq Danube SoC, the SoC is probably EoL
since 15 years. I assume that all users either use the vendor SDK with
Linux 2.6.X or OpenWrt.
I will not spend much effort on this driver and others will probably
also not spend much effort. We can move it completely into OpenWrt and
keep it running there.
Hauke
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