From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55CE9E81DEC for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2023 12:22:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232173AbjJFMWB (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2023 08:22:01 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:42152 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232000AbjJFMWA (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2023 08:22:00 -0400 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6B17ACA for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2023 05:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E91D2C433C7; Fri, 6 Oct 2023 12:21:56 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1696594919; bh=O9WIz0wKW84YgqoCVsyMw+N5LTvDV1mzG7gMzBO8rHE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=S1ySHGJDbf2+24R5jw/YL8CJQt/y/hbkQPhE6PATtuXX6JG7ziNK/I+YDY2dTFfT8 RwBisnO5iZFLpg6dDm+XDMI1n3wGNbjOIWzlHj/CizpOTK+x6KLXWfT/h1+dYy4O/M 5eO9NlQhbIX+DSAvXSmzYutU5Oupqzsx0A0U+VD3RWncg5mBcCB5H4S/BGDnKMRBE6 YQfl/huF4+8E+E0swRJzjP5T41J9sVhiPF/FAM73RBqOCBvfpRFOrsb0PeOfP2ABed QyTTbSEkQBOnDio2tGlcvqvHtf85i+d+4/H+cLhNd7IoFBFllRgkCl2SDCcMqGdFuw i3HA4ozu4XEFA== From: Kalle Valo To: Julian Calaby Cc: Dmitry Antipov , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "lvc-project@linuxtesting.org" , Arend van Spriel , Franky Lin , Hante Meuleman , Hector Martin , SHA-cyfmac-dev-list@infineon.com, brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com Subject: Re: On brcm80211 maintenance and support References: <6f78e624-62ee-3ae5-1db4-a0411566def8@yandex.ru> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 15:21:54 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Julian Calaby's message of "Fri, 6 Oct 2023 21:44:05 +1100") Message-ID: <87ttr454bh.fsf@kernel.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Julian Calaby writes: > Hi Dmitry, > > (relevant people and lists CC'd) > > On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 3:16=E2=80=AFAM Dmitry Antipov wrote: >> >> Kalle, >> >> what's an actual status of brcm80211 driver? It seems >> that the relevant MAINTAINERS entries are no longer >> useful, and [1] states that Broadcom is just "disappeared". > > Arend hasn't posted since February: > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/63f72045-e51d-d9a4-a0ed-c221bcdcee= 03@gmail.com/ > > Franky is still reviewing things as of early August: > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/CA+8PC_evb-6Y3dKnAN4BN=3DODEVxY5-c= Db6Lc72u0j1WBtx7p1A@mail.gmail.com/ > > Hante hasn't posted since 2018: > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/4f6223b8083ed69432493a37d4f45b69@m= ail.gmail.com/ > > Hector Martin has a bunch of Apple-specific patches downstream in the > Asahi Linux kernel and has been looking for guidance on how to > upstream it without any real answers: > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/181af6e9-799d-b730-dc14-ee2de2541f= 35@marcan.st/ > > There's also speculation that the Raspberry Pi people have downstream > patches too, but I haven't been able to find anything concrete in a > very brief search. Thanks for the research, that is helpful. > Finally, the Cypress / Infineon people appear to be uninterested in > discussing the driver. > > I think it's pretty safe to say that this driver is nearly > unmaintained by Broadcom, definitely unmaintained by Cypress / > Infineon and Arend is unable to answer questions relating to anything > beyond the code as-written. > > Kalle, should this driver get orphaned? We definitely need to consider that but let's first wait for Arend to comment. --=20 https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatc= hes