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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
To: Qingfang Deng <qingfang.deng@linux.dev>,
	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	"Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
	Mingyu Wang <25181214217@stu.xidian.edu.cn>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>,
	Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: remove the ipwireless driver
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 09:17:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <92887761-aabb-4f1b-a207-3e6b15f749de@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260803091938.259944-1-qingfang.deng@linux.dev>

On 03. 08. 26, 11:19, Qingfang Deng wrote:
> The last mentions of this driver on local Linux and telco support forums
> date back to 2011. This does not prove that no users remain, but the
> likelihood is too low to justify continuing to carry the driver in the
> kernel.
> 
> The maintainer agreed that the driver should be removed and noted that it
> is simple enough to build as an external module if a user resurfaces [1].
> 
> Remove the driver along with its Kconfig, defconfig, build and MAINTAINERS
> entries.

Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>

<nostalgy>This was the first large tty driver I reviewed.</nostalgy>

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs

      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-05  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-03  9:19 [PATCH] tty: remove the ipwireless driver Qingfang Deng
2026-08-03 12:14 ` David Sterba
2026-08-03 12:15   ` Jiri Kosina
2026-08-05  7:17 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]

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