On Thu, 2026-04-23 at 10:53 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 08:41:27PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > > On Apr 22, 2026, at 7:05 AM, David Woodhouse <[email protected]> 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 have 3 boards lying around if anyone wants them. > > The problem as I understand it is in one's willing to maintain and > support that driver while doing regular testing...
Sure, but that's true of the usb-atm devices too, and I threw all of *those* in the skip already. :) I'll be more surprised if anyone is actively using one of those, than I would be if someone is using Solos. *If* we are going to keep the USB devices, I'd suggest it makes sense to keep Solos too.
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