On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:05:31 +0100 David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2026-04-21 at 21:18 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > I'm still deleting the solos driver, chances are nobody uses it. > > Easy enough to revert back in since core is still around. > > The guiding principle is to keep USB modems and delete > > the rest as USB ADSL2+ CPEs were most popular historically. > > Still not entirely convinced; I worked on both USB ATM modems and on > Solos, and the Solos is both the most modern and the only one I still > actually have. And the only one we have native support for that could > ever do full 24Mb/s ADSL2+, I believe. > > If we drop it, OpenWrt will need to drop support for these, which I > think were quite popular at the time; there were a few UK resellers: > https://openwrt.org/toh/traverse/geos1_1 > > I still don't actually care *enough* to try to find an ADSL line I > could plug one into for testing though... :)
I'm inversely unconvinced. The argument has the ring of "I still have this HW lying around somewhere", which is usually what prevents us from shedding all this dead weight code. I don't want to argue, so I'll keep it. But if one "fix" arrives for this driver - it's going :(
