* [RFC] staging: rts5208: Proposal to delete driver rts5208
@ 2024-09-29 12:37 Philipp Hortmann
2024-10-09 9:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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From: Philipp Hortmann @ 2024-09-29 12:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman, linux-staging, linux-kernel
Cc: Micky Ching, wwang, Wei Yongjun, Arnd Bergmann, Dan Carpenter,
Justin Stitt, Julia Lawall, Soumya Negi
Dear Sirs,
Wei Wang from Realsil contributed this driver in 2011.
The following points let me propose to delete the driver:
- This driver generates maintenance workload
- Did not find minimal documentation on the web.
- No blog entries about anyone using the rts5208 and rts5288 during the
last years.
- Did not find any device that may has it in and is still available on
the market: Dell Latitude 2120, Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 130, Lenovo x121e
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
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* Re: [RFC] staging: rts5208: Proposal to delete driver rts5208
2024-09-29 12:37 [RFC] staging: rts5208: Proposal to delete driver rts5208 Philipp Hortmann
@ 2024-10-09 9:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2024-10-09 9:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Philipp Hortmann
Cc: linux-staging, linux-kernel, Micky Ching, wwang, Wei Yongjun,
Arnd Bergmann, Dan Carpenter, Justin Stitt, Julia Lawall,
Soumya Negi
On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 02:37:16PM +0200, Philipp Hortmann wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
>
> Wei Wang from Realsil contributed this driver in 2011.
>
> The following points let me propose to delete the driver:
> - This driver generates maintenance workload
> - Did not find minimal documentation on the web.
> - No blog entries about anyone using the rts5208 and rts5288 during the last
> years.
> - Did not find any device that may has it in and is still available on the
> market: Dell Latitude 2120, Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 130, Lenovo x121e
>
> 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.
Again, no objection from me, please send a patch to delete it.
thanks,
greg k-h
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