Re: [PATCH] [RFC] wireless: move obsolete drivers to staging

Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-13T15:45:09Z

On Thu, Oct 12, 2023, at 18:36, Geoff Levand wrote:
> On 10/12/23 17:41, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> But seriously - is it worth to try to keep a wireless driver for it if
>> we don't even know anyone using a PS3 at all?
>
> There is still a considerable user base for the PS3, so we
> must keep the ps3-gelic-wireless driver.

Do you know if anyone has tried changing this driver over to the
cfg80211 interface from the wireless extensions? With the
series I have prepared now, it is the only driver outside of
drivers/staging that still uses wext and stops us from removing
that altogether.

[side note: it appears that the PS3 I have is the only model
without wireless networking, as I bought cheapest Asian 20GB version
back in early 2007. It still has the original firmware on it
and should run Linux, but I haven't tried it since at least
2009].

Arnd