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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>,
	Matthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	Manuel Messner <manuel.johannes.messner@hs-furtwangen.de>,
	Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>,
	Cihangir Akturk <cakturk@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some cleanup patches for drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_mlme.c
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 09:08:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1473178128.8300.8.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wrfjshtdyq56.fsf@redhat.com>

On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 12:00 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:

> Nothing wrong with these patches, however I intend to post a patch to
> remove this driver soon, so it's kind of a waste of your time to spend
> too many cycles on it.

It might be useful to mark any drivers you're
planning on removing as "Obsolete" in MAINTAINERS.

checkpatch will then emit a "don't waste your time"
message if anyone scans an obsolete driver/file.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-06 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-04 19:26 [PATCH 0/5] Some cleanup patches for drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_mlme.c Matthias Beyer
2016-09-04 19:26 ` [PATCH 1/5] drivers: staging: rtl8723au: core: Fix checkpatch.pl errors Matthias Beyer
2016-09-04 19:26 ` [PATCH 2/5] drivers: staging: rtl8723au: core: simplify if-break-else Matthias Beyer
2016-09-04 19:26 ` [PATCH 3/5] drivers: staging: rtl8723au: core: Refactor pointless branching Matthias Beyer
2016-09-04 19:26 ` [PATCH 4/5] drivers: staging: rtl8723au: core: Fix "space prohibited" warning Matthias Beyer
2016-09-04 19:26 ` [PATCH 5/5] drivers: staging: rtl8723au: core: Fix indentation Matthias Beyer
2016-09-06 16:00 ` [PATCH 0/5] Some cleanup patches for drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_mlme.c Jes Sorensen
2016-09-06 16:08   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2016-09-06 16:11     ` Jes Sorensen
2016-09-07  7:43   ` Matthias Beyer

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