Subject: Re: Hardware support for devices using the driver file,dm9000.c

From: Andrew Ruder <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 14:52:22 +0000

On 05/29/2015 09:23 AM, nick wrote:
> Greetings All,
> I am wondering if anything is still using the  Davicom DM9000 driver recently as the code base states its
> from the late 1990s. Furthermore I see no reason to keep it around if something recent i.e. last 10 years
> is using it that is based off the mainline/stable releases as otherwise it's legacy code and should be
> removed in my option.
> Cheers,
> Nick

Nick,

Yes, it is still used.

Andy

P.S.

Some context for those yelling WTF at their computer right now:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/4/206

Pretty sure he's banned from the mailing lists though.