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To:     Harini Katakam <harini.katakam@amd.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] MAINTAINERS: Add an obsolete entry for LL
 TEMAC driver
In-Reply-To: <20230920115047.31345-1-harini.katakam@amd.com> (Harini Katakam's
        message of "Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:20:47 +0530")
References: <20230920115047.31345-1-harini.katakam@amd.com>
Date:   Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:46:12 +0200
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Harini Katakam <harini.katakam@amd.com> writes:

> LL TEMAC IP is no longer supported. Hence add an entry marking the
> driver as obsolete.

Ok. But while that might mean that no new designs should use LL TEMAC
IP, why do we need to declare the driver for it obsolete?

Existing designs using LL TEMAC IP might need to upgrade Linux kernel
also.

/Esben

>
> Signed-off-by: Harini Katakam <harini.katakam@amd.com>
> ---
> This is an old driver with no bindings doc and hence the maintainers
> entry does not contain a link to documentation.
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 3dde038545d8..820a7817f02f 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -23696,6 +23696,11 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/xlnx,gpio-xilinx.yaml
>  F:	drivers/gpio/gpio-xilinx.c
>  F:	drivers/gpio/gpio-zynq.c
>  
> +XILINX LL TEMAC ETHERNET DRIVER
> +L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
> +S:	Obsolete
> +F:	drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/ll_temac*
> +
>  XILINX PWM DRIVER
>  M:	Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
>  S:	Maintained