From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 04CCC23C5 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:39:17 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="iC4DU14q" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CCA3DC433C8; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:39:12 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1698071957; bh=NIVU0lraVnY9tVfNs+nrqx9z11nCFVyyanfkCTzzArs=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=iC4DU14qaPkUB3GGsIVwt86wSYTMScEqVbTjWAnhwDqWdK6OBqgsVnaE7LIhXuFo1 eC9EnqeJeeDFOk/PBqx9QVcIssVmfLiyzOAgIKSqKqGx2mkJPMack6hLUAknFZlDCg hRybi5Uz37GPsc5lxsB50ytFzSvixqE2HRhNme42zv0ANDPcMyfEtGdTbGXzXeaQOV k0+6D86vzJNPCqNvBxyPWntyFSO/hFcdldzSWWxJyegTa6oGwwmQWdXensnwM+xUu+ gkmsyhGef3CWRinnERGNTpaAW1ZOkZcN4afgn9lb4Vz74urmZGNeaVwJ7JvxYWpAiI X3tL1w87tsSsQ== From: Kalle Valo To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Arnd Bergmann , "David S . Miller" , Alexandre Belloni , Claudiu Beznea , Geert Uytterhoeven , Geoff Levand , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jakub Kicinski , Jeff Johnson , Johannes Berg , Larry Finger , Nicolas Ferre , Pavel Machek , Stanislaw Gruszka , Gregory Greenman , linuxppc-dev , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Stanislav Yakovlev , Linux Wireless Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] [RFC] wifi: remove ipw2100/ipw2200 drivers References: <20231023131953.2876682-1-arnd@kernel.org> <20231023131953.2876682-11-arnd@kernel.org> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:39:10 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20231023131953.2876682-11-arnd@kernel.org> (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2023 15:19:52 +0200") Message-ID: <87il6xz9m9.fsf@kernel.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Arnd Bergmann writes: > From: Arnd Bergmann > > These two drivers were used for the earliest "Centrino" branded Intel > laptops during the late 32-bit Pentium-M era, roughly 2003 to 2005, which > probably makes it the most modern platform that still uses the wireless > extension interface instead of cfg80211. Unlike the other drivers that > are suggested for removal, this one is still officially maintained. > > According to Johannes Berg, there was an effort to finish the move away > from wext in the past, but the last evidence of this that I could find > is from commit a3caa99e6c68f ("libipw: initiate cfg80211 API conversion > (v2)") in 2009. > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87fs2fgals.fsf@kernel.org/ > Cc: Stanislav Yakovlev > Cc: Linux Wireless > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > --- > I'm not convinced this should be in the same set of drivers as the > rest, since this is clearly less obsolete than the other hardware > that I would remove support for. I am inclined to remove this one as well, it's just so old. This patch didn't make it to the list, I guess it was too big. But it's available from the pending branch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next.git/commit/?h=pending&id=81ba6b51c3a640b277274701407bbf557f12edac -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches