Dave, this is the qeth patch provided last week, you have not been happy with, because you do not want to unilaterally remove support for a chipset. I understand that, but I am not sure, if the stopped chip support of vendors is considered to be something equivalent to the removal of OSN support for s390. At least your arguments tell me that my original patch description has been misleading.
OSN mode deals with the legacy IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) protocol. Since s390 mainframes ceased to use the SNA protocol and OSN mode reached its end of life, we do not want to keep code just needed for legacy IBM SNA traffic in the kernel. Isn't such a decision comparable for instance to the removal of Token Ring support in 2012? Thus am resending the qeth-patch one more time with a different patch description. Kind regards, Ursula Ursula Braun (1): s390/qeth: remove legacy SNA-support drivers/s390/net/qeth_core.h | 28 ---- drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 53 ++------ drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_mpc.c | 3 - drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_mpc.h | 10 +- drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_sys.c | 17 --- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 267 +++++++------------------------------- 6 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 322 deletions(-) -- 2.8.4
