From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>,
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Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>,
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linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove obsolete and orphaned wifi drivers
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:45:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8axzc46.fsf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231023131953.2876682-1-arnd@kernel.org> (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2023 15:19:42 +0200")
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> writes:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> As discussed previously, a lot of the older wifi drivers are likely
> entirely unused, Though we can't know for sure.
>
> As suggested by both Greg and Jakub, let's remove the ones that look
> are most likely to have no users left and also get in the way of the
> wext cleanup. If anyone is still using any of these, we can revert the
> driver removal individually.
>
> I would suggest merging these for net-next after 6.7-rc1 is out
Why net-next? I want to take these to wireless-next to avoid any
conflicts with other wireless patches.
We could take these to wireless-next after we submit the last new
features (-next) pull request to v6.7, so most likely already next week.
So if anyone has any problems with these speak up now.
--
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>,
Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove obsolete and orphaned wifi drivers
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:45:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8axzc46.fsf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231023131953.2876682-1-arnd@kernel.org> (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2023 15:19:42 +0200")
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> writes:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> As discussed previously, a lot of the older wifi drivers are likely
> entirely unused, Though we can't know for sure.
>
> As suggested by both Greg and Jakub, let's remove the ones that look
> are most likely to have no users left and also get in the way of the
> wext cleanup. If anyone is still using any of these, we can revert the
> driver removal individually.
>
> I would suggest merging these for net-next after 6.7-rc1 is out
Why net-next? I want to take these to wireless-next to avoid any
conflicts with other wireless patches.
We could take these to wireless-next after we submit the last new
features (-next) pull request to v6.7, so most likely already next week.
So if anyone has any problems with these speak up now.
--
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove obsolete and orphaned wifi drivers
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:45:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8axzc46.fsf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231023131953.2876682-1-arnd@kernel.org> (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2023 15:19:42 +0200")
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> writes:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> As discussed previously, a lot of the older wifi drivers are likely
> entirely unused, Though we can't know for sure.
>
> As suggested by both Greg and Jakub, let's remove the ones that look
> are most likely to have no users left and also get in the way of the
> wext cleanup. If anyone is still using any of these, we can revert the
> driver removal individually.
>
> I would suggest merging these for net-next after 6.7-rc1 is out
Why net-next? I want to take these to wireless-next to avoid any
conflicts with other wireless patches.
We could take these to wireless-next after we submit the last new
features (-next) pull request to v6.7, so most likely already next week.
So if anyone has any problems with these speak up now.
--
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
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Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-23 13:19 [PATCH 00/10] Remove obsolete and orphaned wifi drivers Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 01/10] wifi: libertas: drop 16-bit PCMCIA support Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 02/10] wifi: atmel: remove wext style at76c50x drivers Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 03/10] wifi: remove orphaned cisco/aironet driver Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 04/10] wifi: remove obsolete hostap driver Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 14:36 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-23 14:36 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-23 14:36 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 05/10] wifi: remove orphaned zd1201 driver Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 06/10] wifi: remove orphaned orinoco driver Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 07/10] wifi: remove orphaned ray_cs driver Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 08/10] wifi: remove orphaned wl3501 driver Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 09/10] wifi: remove orphaned rndis_wlan driver Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 10/10] [RFC] wifi: remove ipw2100/ipw2200 drivers Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 14:39 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-23 14:39 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-23 14:39 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-23 19:40 ` Frank Schäfer
2023-10-23 23:43 ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2023-10-23 23:43 ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2023-10-23 23:43 ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2023-10-24 9:30 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-24 9:30 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-24 9:30 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 10/10] " Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-26 10:49 ` kernel test robot
2023-10-23 13:45 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2023-10-23 13:45 ` [PATCH 00/10] Remove obsolete and orphaned wifi drivers Kalle Valo
2023-10-23 13:45 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-23 14:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 14:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 14:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 14:41 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-23 14:41 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-23 14:41 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-30 7:19 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-10-30 7:19 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-10-30 7:19 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-10-30 10:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-30 10:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-30 10:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-30 16:55 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-30 16:55 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-30 16:55 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-31 9:08 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-31 9:08 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-31 9:08 ` Kalle Valo
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