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[84.160.113.44]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 4fb4d7f45d1cf-5c882493b74sm2922927a12.79.2024.09.29.01.09.02 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 29 Sep 2024 01:09:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <718c0476-c4bc-4a72-a1e4-483697c7eff2@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 10:09:02 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Tommaso Merciai , Richard Meek , Larry Finger , Xingquan Liu , =?UTF-8?Q?Dominik_Karol_Pi=C4=85tkowski?= , Dan Carpenter , Pavan Bobba , Malcolm Priestley , Joe Perches From: Philipp Hortmann Subject: [RFC] staging: vt6655: Proposal to delete driver vt6655_stage Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 but this lasts only for a second. Typically throughput is 1.7MBytes/s. - Depending on the number of devices on the channel the device looses connection and cannot reconnect for 5-60 seconds. Watching a youtube video is OK because of the buffer. But surfing can then be really a pain. - Its form factor is mini PCI (not miniPCIe) that is really old and large. - Hardly not to buy. (https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1313&_nkw=vnt6655&_sacat=0) only 70$ ;-) including shipment. Former Maintainer Forest Bond is unreachable. The staging subsystem needs to focus on drivers that support usable hardware that is available. Newbies can then get the hardware for some dollars and play around which is fun. Please consider that support will remain for years in the longterm kernels. Thanks for any response about your thoughts. Bye Philipp