From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE6AAC00A8F for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:42:30 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Cc:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post: List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To: Date:References:Subject:To:From:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: List-Owner; bh=ZDZ6ITR98cWgGPnbdxGDgbbbTHl9Q3SXScg4j9tLF8o=; b=NXPgTGX64MS48U QEvJb4GXxLH/n49K3piZIWRJW1OsDU5d9RAGx+ue2cHssHYwXBqHdUan4t8bniq1KJ9+42BFQGWT5 jnTwvq+Vi+69muAGxVC077SXKQQ1Aclbmgs7m5XGSgdwdBDYZv2tLo4LQ4pQCze6MYqM9L2ty359o htlZ/5648viK7AKe8qtcFSr8z6YcZuFwMXzNmgRLzRD0zoiw3UXpIGRVvDzifuWOXY4gYIe/5ukr9 2iWSVLumly48R4N9kYJ5Kvwpkhk4qLMbqkTppLoKe18fHA6jDDji1J41g98WeAIaXR+Ixx1MLcPKP mYGQ+D+6ftpQmjP1J87A==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1quw87-007aic-2O; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:42:07 +0000 Received: from sin.source.kernel.org ([2604:1380:40e1:4800::1]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1quw7Z-007aDF-1S for linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:41:35 +0000 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (transwarp.subspace.kernel.org [100.75.92.58]) by sin.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC73ECE259A; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AF551C433C8; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:41:26 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1698072091; bh=N4If+wgwsD8dFTdUHEouchVNBSUFE+9hWZEa6Th40ts=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=qD+ozjajwsL/rFVAaZsugmIyEH3vwd5drmhXUIXfjLh1gKwHJWIN1dobJ88kx4Egh RHA4m/cy5OiAXs+dPr2hUVPCKRKLzCsK4ipHu/V3SBzjatw9ibogQb9E3+cQVZZSnW bhogHTKie9F8J4xFYhhGmRkymJ2uqsEoy6vRAmBgpTjNE6DooXvbMnRHTmt80js1v6 fUJE2AEkblMuFSj6kajAKMdP8frLSty/xG8TbjwDC7PenDxpsGKxWxCWhf0BxcJUWQ N2wZvRaECSlzwYO5tL4q7HJCK+XVhR8pNAV7KKU/ZGN5RO8kx5lGbXFRPOluU7RHcB A9gJHTEZj/aqA== From: Kalle Valo To: "Arnd Bergmann" Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove obsolete and orphaned wifi drivers References: <20231023131953.2876682-1-arnd@kernel.org> <87v8axzc46.fsf@kernel.org> <50eafe40-9c50-48e2-8d48-6a113c8fd87d@app.fastmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:41:24 +0300 In-Reply-To: <50eafe40-9c50-48e2-8d48-6a113c8fd87d@app.fastmail.com> (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:10:16 +0200") Message-ID: <87edhlz9ij.fsf@kernel.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20231023_074133_696999_C14E5DC5 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 15.20 ) 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 , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stanislaw Gruszka , Geoff Levand , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linuxppc-dev , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Claudiu Beznea , Geert Uytterhoeven , Pavel Machek , Gregory Greenman , Jakub Kicinski , Johannes Berg , Jeff Johnson , "David S . Miller" , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.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 "Arnd Bergmann" writes: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2023, at 15:45, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Arnd Bergmann writes: >> >>> From: Arnd Bergmann >>> >>> As discussed previously, a lot of the older wifi drivers are likely >>> entirely unused, Though we can't know for sure. >>> >>> As suggested by both Greg and Jakub, let's remove the ones that look >>> are most likely to have no users left and also get in the way of the >>> wext cleanup. If anyone is still using any of these, we can revert the >>> driver removal individually. >>> >>> I would suggest merging these for net-next after 6.7-rc1 is out >> >> Why net-next? I want to take these to wireless-next to avoid any >> conflicts with other wireless patches. > > My mistake, I actually rebased them on top of wireless-next before > sending out the patches, I just forgot update the text I had > already written a week earlier. Ah, good that we are on the same page then :) >> We could take these to wireless-next after we submit the last new >> features (-next) pull request to v6.7, so most likely already next week. >> So if anyone has any problems with these speak up now. > > Sounds good to me, thanks! Thanks for the patches! I applied them to our pending branch for some build testing, there were few conflicts I guess due to recent cleanup patches but obviously easy to fix :) https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next.git/log/?h=pending -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel