Re: [PATCH] crypto: qce - Remove driver

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 05:02:08AM -0700, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:22:41 +0200, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> said:
> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 08:51:44AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> >> It is consuming a lot of the community's time to help maintain,
> >> including dealing with LLM-found bugs, with no clear benefit to anyone.
> >> Even considering *just today* we can see someone sent a bug fix:
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20260724081537.191992-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev/
> >
> > Another example:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/d5de5a55-eb35-4ad5-8d53-12e188e156cb@oss.qualcomm.com/
> >
> Are you seriously complaining about people sending fixes to a driver we want
> to see fixed? We don't remove maintained drivers, this has been the kernel
> policy for years. Unfortunately if we want to fix it, then it'll take some
> work involving sending patches to the mailing list.

This again completely misses the point.  The point is that maintenance
is a community effort, and just because you have a M: entry (without a
git tree) doesn't mean it isn't taking time from other people too.

Now if it actually provided a benefit to users that generally would be
fine.  But in reality it just causes problems (with the possible
exception of the one point raised today where the driver is "needed" to
power off the hardware, though that part is broken too).

- Eric