From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Vrabel Subject: Future of the Wimedia LLC Protocol (WLP) subsystem/drivers Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:30:47 +0100 Message-ID: <4CBDC7B7.5070108@csr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from cluster-g.mailcontrol.com ([208.87.233.190]:46732 "EHLO cluster-g.mailcontrol.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753955Ab0JSQa6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:30:58 -0400 Received: from cameurexb01.EUROPE.ROOT.PRI ([193.128.72.68]) by rly16g.srv.mailcontrol.com (MailControl) with ESMTP id o9JGUrUu001347 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:30:56 +0100 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. David -- David Vrabel, Senior Software Engineer, Drivers CSR, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Tel: +44 (0)1223 692562 Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ http://www.csr.com/ Member of the CSR plc group of companies. CSR plc registered in England and Wales, registered number 4187346, registered office Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, United Kingdom