Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove obsolete and orphaned wifi drivers

Hi Arnd!

There is some non-x86 hardware like the Amiga that still uses PCMCIA-style networking
cards on machines like the A600 and A1200. So, unless these drivers are actually causing
problems, I would rather not see them go yet.

Thanks,
Adrian

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2023-10-30 10:17:11

by Arnd Bergmann

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove obsolete and orphaned wifi drivers

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023, at 08:19, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Arnd!
>
> There is some non-x86 hardware like the Amiga that still uses
> PCMCIA-style networking
> cards on machines like the A600 and A1200. So, unless these drivers are
> actually causing
> problems, I would rather not see them go yet.

Do you know of any systems other than the Amiga that are still
in use with new kernels and that rely on PCMCIA networking?

I know that Amiga has its own simple CONFIG_AMIGA_PCMCIA
implementation that is incompatible with CONFIG_PCMCIA device
drivers, so it is not affected by this.

For the few ARM systems that still support a CF card slot,
these tend to be used for IDE type storage cards because their
internal flash is too limited otherwise.

Arnd