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From: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Kim <jonathankim@gctsemi.com>,
	Dean ahn <deanahn@gctsemi.com>, Won Kang <wonkang@gctsemi.com>,
	support@gctsemi.com
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: [RFC] staging: gdm724x: Proposal to delete drivers gdmtty and gdmulte
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:41:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50020db0-3bad-41f5-8da3-c66bc0a90fe6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <78b521eb-4e89-4c01-8dfc-1fb990e6887d@gmail.com>

Dear Sirs,

Won Kang from gct contributed the driver gdm724x to the Linux kernel 
staging subsystem in 2013.

The following points let me propose to delete the driver:
- This driver generates maintenance workload (for example  CVE)
- The manufacturer is not interested and does not care as Emails or 
inquiries, to support or involved persons of gct, got unanswered.
- Did not find a possibility to buy the chips.
- Did not find minimal documentation on the web.
- Did not find a device where it is build in and the user is able to 
install any Linux. Therefore it is not possible to do any testing of the 
driver from the community.
- No blog entries about anyone using the gdmtty and gdmulte.
- No response about usage of this drivers to the Email from April 2024
https://lore.kernel.org/all/78b521eb-4e89-4c01-8dfc-1fb990e6887d@gmail.com/

Thanks for any response about your thoughts.

Bye Philipp

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-09-28  6:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-22 17:55 [RFC] staging: ks7010: How to proceed with Spectec SDW-823 microSD driver Philipp Hortmann
2024-04-23 10:31 ` Wolfram Sang
2024-04-24 18:33   ` [RFC] staging: gdm724x: How to proceed with drivers gdmtty and gdmulte Philipp Hortmann
2024-04-24 21:39     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-09-28  6:41     ` Philipp Hortmann [this message]
2024-10-09  9:41       ` [RFC] staging: gdm724x: Proposal to delete " Greg Kroah-Hartman

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