From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: Future of the Wimedia LLC Protocol (WLP) subsystem/drivers Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:15:41 -0700 Message-ID: <20101020091541.ec00fe96.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> References: <4CBDC7B7.5070108@csr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gregkh To: David Vrabel Return-path: Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:56831 "EHLO rcsinet10.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752460Ab0JTQP6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:15:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4CBDC7B7.5070108@csr.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:30:47 +0100 David Vrabel wrote: > Hi, > > I've have been nominally the maintainer of the Wimedia LLC Protocol > (WLP) subsystem and driver since it was originally submitted. I am no > longer in a position to even pretend to be a maintainer. > > The only usable hardware was an Intel i1480 devices with beta firmware > that was never released as a product. Intel have since sold all there > UWB/WLP IP and I see little prospect of there ever being hardware > commercially available for WLP. > > Here are a number of options: > > 1. Someone else maintains it. Any volunteers? > > 2. It gets labelled as Orphaned in MAINTAINERS. > > 3. It gets moved to staging. > > 4, It gets removed. > > If no one says anything I'll submit a patch to Linus to mark it as Orphaned. I'd say either 3 or 4. It could go to staging on it way to removal, but that's not really necessary. cc: gregkh --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***