[PATCH net-next] net: lantiq_etop: remove driver

[Jacob Keller]

On 1/29/2026 9:18 AM, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> This driver in mainline lost its in-tree user with commit cd93b4895ea5
> ("MIPS: lantiq: drop mips_machine support") in 2012. Since then it has
> had no in-tree user. Only user seems to be OpenWRT, with several changes
> to the in-tree driver version:
> target/linux/lantiq/patches-6.12/035-owrt-lantiq-wifi-and-ethernet-eeprom-handling.patch
> target/linux/lantiq/patches-6.12/028-NET-lantiq-various-etop-fixes.patch
> target/linux/lantiq/patches-6.12/701-NET-lantiq-etop-of-mido.patch
> So it seems the driver is maintained in OpenWrt only, except tree-wide
> in-tree changes. According to OpenWRT maintainers it would be ok to
> remove the driver in mainline and keep it downstream only (see linked
> conversation).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1 at gmail.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/d80fef86-ba14-4bd4-bce5-4d61a75d591b@hauke-m.de/T/#t
> --- 
Makes sense.

Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller at intel.com>