From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0515CDB46E for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:20:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1344029AbjJLQUA (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:20:00 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:58558 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S235728AbjJLQT7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:19:59 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.129.124]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 38E4ACF for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:19:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1697127549; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=SQu5TmIv6kRwUt1hSoHmn+8CkuoIuY67NQyE/AJm8Vc=; b=E62aGihq7yfA0AfOFPYBWlU9ba4vsp3aBQwKk6KxfhmmWrF3GOpz+VlUZtABQj1oJoveXE F3NMYcqgNYq8grzYyO/BAlVVccIi/Y/bZwbi5yMzLq5RI/jv+Mewf0S+jHlNbQ+J7JdeA2 S8ak/Qt/z2NbTnDQxn/OrjvSzNyuZ1Y= Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mimecast-mx02.redhat.com [66.187.233.88]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-241-2Ttejii7N1WX9_4r3iRUVw-1; Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:19:02 -0400 X-MC-Unique: 2Ttejii7N1WX9_4r3iRUVw-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.10]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E2C7858281; Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:19:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [10.22.50.17]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B53464060EA; Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:18:58 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <2017087fd471048ff1edb6e57e61883b4ae084be.camel@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] wireless: move obsolete drivers to staging From: Dan Williams To: Arnd Bergmann , Kalle Valo , Jakub Kicinski Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Arnd Bergmann , Nicolas Ferre , Alexandre Belloni , Claudiu Beznea , Pavel Machek , "David S . Miller" , Larry Finger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 11:18:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <63e57ef8-c9f2-489a-8df8-51dcffd437c6@app.fastmail.com> References: <20231010155444.858483-1-arnd@kernel.org> <2023101051-unmasked-cleaver-79b3@gregkh> <87y1g94szz.fsf@kernel.org> <2023101139-pyromania-game-2237@gregkh> <87r0m1fwg9.fsf@kernel.org> <20231011080955.1beeb010@kernel.org> <87sf6g2hc8.fsf@kernel.org> <63e57ef8-c9f2-489a-8df8-51dcffd437c6@app.fastmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.46.4 (3.46.4-1.fc37) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.10 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2023-10-12 at 16:36 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2023, at 13:47, Kalle Valo wrote: > >=20 > > 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). >=20 > I can do it, I've already done most of the work for moving the > drivers, so I just need to split up my existing patch and leave out > the bits that get added to drivers/staging. >=20 > I'll also send Greg a patch to remove rtl8192u now that we know > that this has been broken for 7 years. Similarly, I'd include > another patch to remove PCMCIA support for libertas, as that > would otherwise be the only remaining 16-bit PCMCIA wlan card, > and I could find no indication of this one ever being popular, > unlike the USB/SDIO/SPI variants of the same device or the > other PCMCIA drivers. This was only for CF cards of which there were a couple; I still have cards but don't have a machine with CF anymore. USB/SDIO/SPI (as you point out) have much higher usage. ACK from me (if my historical libertas involvement counts for anything) on removing Libertas CF support. Dan >=20 > This would leave only a handful of wext implementations in the > tree: ipw2x00, ps3-gelic-wireless, staging/rtl8712, staging/rtl8192e > and staging/ks7010. Since ipw2x00 is apparently still supported > in theory and was rather popular on Pentium-M based systems 20 > years ago, this may still need to be converted to cfg80211 > before you can remove support for wext style drivers altogether. > ps3-gelic-wireless and rtl8712 are also still maintained but have > a much smaller user base I assume. >=20 > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Arnd >=20