Re: [PATCH] staging: Revert "staging: qlge: Retire the driver"

[Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>]

On 2023-10-30 12:33 -0400, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> On 2023-10-30 16:25 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 02:04:00AM +1100, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> > > This reverts commit 875be090928d19ff4ae7cbaadb54707abb3befdf.
> > > 
> > > On All Hallows' Eve, fear and cower for it is the return of the undead
> > > driver.
> > > 
> > > There was a report [1] from a user of a QLE8142 device. They would like for
> > > the driver to remain in the kernel. Therefore, revert the removal of the
> > > qlge driver.
> > > 
> > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/566c0155-4f80-43ec-be2c-2d1ad631bf25@gmail.com/
> > 
> > Who's going to maintain this?
> 
> I was planning to update the MAINTAINERS entry to
> S:	Orphan
> when moving it back to drivers/net/. Would you prefer that I do that
> change in a second patch right after the revert in staging? That would
> certainly make things clearer.
> 
> > > Reported by: Kira <nyakov13@gmail.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > Notes:
> > >     Once the removal and revert show up in the net-next tree, I plan to send a
> > >     followup patch to move the driver to drivers/net/ as discussed earlier:
> > >     https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231019074237.7ef255d7@kernel.org/
> > 
> > are you going to be willing to maintain this and keep it alive?
> 
> No.
> 
> > I'm all this, if you want to, but I would like it out of staging.  So
> 
> I'd like it out of staging as well. Since nobody wants to maintain it, I
> think it should be deleted. However, my understanding is that Jakub is
> willing to take it back into drivers/net/ as-is given that there is at
> least one user. Jakub, did I understand that correctly?
> 
> > how about applying this, and a follow-on one that moves it there once
> > -rc1 is out?  And it probably should be in the 'net' tree, as you don't
> > want 6.7 to come out without the driver at all, right?
> 
> Right about making sure 6.7 includes the driver. The 'net' tree is
> usually for fixes hence why I would send to net-next. So the driver
> would still be in staging for 6.7 (if you include the revert in your
> 6.7-rc1 submission) and would be back in drivers/net/ for 6.8.

Rereading, I think I misunderstood your suggestion. You're suggesting
that I submit the revert through the net tree rather than the staging
tree. That sounds good. I'll do that once the removal shows up there.