On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 12:36 PM Hauke Mehrtens <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. FWIW I have some cleanup commits on the driver. Would be great to have the driver as C files to make editing easier... > > Hauke > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
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