As stated in this news - https://www.phoronix.com/news/QLogic-10Gb-QLGE-Driver-Dropped

QLogic 10Gb “QLGE” Ethernet Driver Set To Be Removed From The Linux Kernel.

If some users manifest themselves, the driver will be restored to drivers/net/ as suggested in the linked message.

So if there any users of QLogic 8XXX adapters here, you should try to reach out to them in order to Linux kernel devs wont drop support for it.

The way to do it is probably by writing email in this list - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231020124457.312449-3-benjamin.poirier@gmail.com/

In the bottom of the page will me mailto link that can be used to form email in Thunderbird.

Just be sure to use plain-text mode for message.