From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: Future of the Wimedia LLC Protocol (WLP) subsystem/drivers Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:22:33 -0700 Message-ID: <20101020192233.GA8912@kroah.com> References: <4CBDC7B7.5070108@csr.com> <20101020091541.ec00fe96.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Vrabel , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Randy Dunlap Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:45221 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751990Ab0JTTXA (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:23:00 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101020091541.ec00fe96.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:15:41AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > 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 3 or 4 is fine with me, which ever David wants. thanks, greg k-h