Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 5/6] net: cpmac: remove driver to prepare for platform removal

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 07:16:34 -0700

On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 16:08:55 +0200 Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 08:15:26AM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > AR7 is going to be removed from the Kernel, so remove its networking
> > support in form of the cpmac driver. This allows us to remove the
> > platform because this driver includes a platform specific header.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <[email-masked]>
> > Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> > Changes since v1:
> > * added ack
> > 
> >  MAINTAINERS                      |    6 -
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/ti/Kconfig  |    9 +-
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/ti/Makefile |    1 -
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpmac.c  | 1251 ------------------------------
> >  4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1266 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpmac.c
> > [..]  
> 
> is it ok for network people to route this patch via mips-next tree
> or do you want to apply to net-next ?

We have a ".remove callback should return void" conversion from Uwe
queued for the deleted driver (231ea972ccaf5b). The conflict will be
really trivial, but I guess no conflict beats trivial conflict so better
if we take it? :S