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Thu, 12 Oct 2023 10:36:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface User-Agent: Cyrus-JMAP/3.9.0-alpha0-1019-ged83ad8595-fm-20231002.001-ged83ad85 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <63e57ef8-c9f2-489a-8df8-51dcffd437c6@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87sf6g2hc8.fsf@kernel.org> References: <20231010155444.858483-1-arnd@kernel.org> <2023101051-unmasked-cleaver-79b3@gregkh> <87y1g94szz.fsf@kernel.org> <2023101139-pyromania-game-2237@gregkh> <87r0m1fwg9.fsf@kernel.org> <20231011080955.1beeb010@kernel.org> <87sf6g2hc8.fsf@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:36:26 +0200 From: "Arnd Bergmann" To: "Kalle Valo" , "Jakub Kicinski" Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] wireless: move obsolete drivers to staging X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20231012_073702_482117_20716010 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 14.95 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Alexandre Belloni , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Claudiu Beznea , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Pavel Machek , "David S . Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Larry Finger Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Thu, Oct 12, 2023, at 13:47, Kalle Valo wrote: > > Is anyone willing to submit patches? Use wireless-next as the baseline > for patches and one driver per commit, please. That way it's easy to > revert later, if needed (hopefully not). I can do it, I've already done most of the work for moving the drivers, so I just need to split up my existing patch and leave out the bits that get added to drivers/staging. I'll also send Greg a patch to remove rtl8192u now that we know that this has been broken for 7 years. Similarly, I'd include another patch to remove PCMCIA support for libertas, as that would otherwise be the only remaining 16-bit PCMCIA wlan card, and I could find no indication of this one ever being popular, unlike the USB/SDIO/SPI variants of the same device or the other PCMCIA drivers. This would leave only a handful of wext implementations in the tree: ipw2x00, ps3-gelic-wireless, staging/rtl8712, staging/rtl8192e and staging/ks7010. Since ipw2x00 is apparently still supported in theory and was rather popular on Pentium-M based systems 20 years ago, this may still need to be converted to cfg80211 before you can remove support for wext style drivers altogether. ps3-gelic-wireless and rtl8712 are also still maintained but have a much smaller user base I assume. Arnd _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel