From: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
To: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>,
linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Teddy Engel" <engel.teddy@gmail.com>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Michael Straube" <straube.linux@gmail.com>,
"Sathish Kumar" <skumark1902@gmail.com>,
"Florian Ziegler" <florian.ziegler@posteo.de>,
"Pritthijit Nath" <pritthijit.nath@icloud.com>,
"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
tdavies@darkphysics.net, m.omerfarukbulut@gmail.com,
"Dominik Karol Piątkowski"
<dominik.karol.piatkowski@protonmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] staging: vt6656: Proposal to delete driver vt6656_stage
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 11:04:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d18e714d-787f-4d30-a32f-4b0f55d2f5be@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2ac0a21-989b-4f36-9bb4-923221a77fb1@gmail.com>
> Dear Sirs,
>
> Forest Bond contributed this driver in 2009.
>
> The following points let me propose to delete the driver:
> - This driver generates maintenance workload
> - This driver has a maximum 54MBit/s as it supports only 802.11 b/g. Peak throughput is 3MBytes/s.
> - ping times can be 17ms are often above 500ms and worst case 22 seconds.
Hmm I see the rtl8192e driver has also gone need to buy another device.
Looks like staging is closing down sale.
Yeah okay from me to delete vt6656_stage it will be stable for a few years.
Regards
Malcolm
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-12 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-11 18:59 [RFC] staging: vt6656: Proposal to delete driver vt6656_stage Philipp Hortmann
2024-10-12 8:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-10-12 9:02 ` Malcolm Priestley
2024-10-12 10:04 ` Malcolm Priestley [this message]
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