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

Kalle Valo
2023-10-12T11:47:09Z

Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> writes:

> On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 10:29:58 +0300 Kalle Valo wrote:
>> > No matter what the time frame is, it's never going to line up with all
>> > distros, or catch everyone properly.
>>
>> Yeah, that's true.
>>
>> > I recommend, just delete all the ones you feel are not being used, in a
>> > patch that removes them one-by-one, so that it is trivial to revert if
>> > someone shows up and says "hey, my device stopped working!" a few years
>> > in the future.
>>
>> I'm starting to lean towards this as well. We have talked about this for
>> so long now but no practical solution ever found so maybe just bite the
>> bullet finally. What do others think?
>
> FWIW in Ethernet we do what Greg says. Delete it, if someone complains
> we revert back in. The revert did actually happen once, it was pretty
> painless (Greg even took it into stable tree, IIRC).

Thanks, good to know that you have had positive experiences with this
approach. As I didn't hear any concerns from anyone so I'm convinced we
should do this. I'm sure it will make my life a lot easier :)

Is anyone willing to submit patches? Use wireless-next as the baseline
for patches and one driver per commit, please. That way it's easy to
revert later, if needed (hopefully not).

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