[PATCH net-next] MAINTAINERS: Add an obsolete entry for LL TEMAC driver

esben at geanix.com esben at geanix.com
Thu Sep 28 07:46:12 PDT 2023


Harini Katakam <harini.katakam at 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 at 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 at vger.kernel.org
> +S:	Obsolete
> +F:	drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/ll_temac*
> +
>  XILINX PWM DRIVER
>  M:	Sean Anderson <sean.anderson at seco.com>
>  S:	Maintained



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