[PATCH wireless] MAINTAINERS: Remembering Larry Finger

[PATCH wireless] MAINTAINERS: Remembering Larry Finger

[Kalle Valo]

We got sad news that Larry is not with us anymore. He was a long time
Linux developer, his first commit was back in 2005 and he has
maintained several wireless drivers over the years. He was known for
patiently supporting Linux users with all sorts of problems they had.
Larry's work helped so many people around the world and I always
enjoyed working with him, even though I sadly never met him.

Rest in Peace, Larry. You will be missed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/77997185-86a6-41c5-af7a-74e4e9064437@lwfinger.net/
Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/larry-finger-linux-wireless-hero-was-a-persistent-patient-coder-and-mentor/
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
---
 CREDITS     | 4 ++++
 MAINTAINERS | 5 +----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index 0107047f807b..1a1a54555e11 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -1214,6 +1214,10 @@ D: UDF filesystem
 S: (ask for current address)
 S: USA
 
+N: Larry Finger
+E: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
+D: Maintainer of wireless drivers, too many to list here
+
 N: Jürgen Fischer
 E: fischer@norbit.de
 D: Author of Adaptec AHA-152x SCSI driver
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index d6c90161c7bf..250c4c3aee22 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3602,10 +3602,9 @@ W:	https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
 F:	drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/
 
 B43LEGACY WIRELESS DRIVER
-M:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
 L:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
 L:	b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Orphan
 W:	https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
 F:	drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/
 
@@ -19511,7 +19510,6 @@ F:	drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8180/
 
 RTL8187 WIRELESS DRIVER
 M:	Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>
-M:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
 L:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 T:	git https://github.com/pkshih/rtw.git
@@ -21249,7 +21247,6 @@ W:	http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DCON
 F:	drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/
 
 STAGING - REALTEK RTL8712U DRIVERS
-M:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
 M:	Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com>.
 S:	Odd Fixes
 F:	drivers/staging/rtl8712/

base-commit: 14f89946b6b383e617657a1e81fe6bf520ce86d5
-- 
2.39.2

Re: [PATCH wireless] MAINTAINERS: Remembering Larry Finger

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 01:39:29PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> We got sad news that Larry is not with us anymore. He was a long time
> Linux developer, his first commit was back in 2005 and he has
> maintained several wireless drivers over the years. He was known for
> patiently supporting Linux users with all sorts of problems they had.
> Larry's work helped so many people around the world and I always
> enjoyed working with him, even though I sadly never met him.
> 
> Rest in Peace, Larry. You will be missed.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/77997185-86a6-41c5-af7a-74e4e9064437@lwfinger.net/
> Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/larry-finger-linux-wireless-hero-was-a-persistent-patient-coder-and-mentor/
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>

Yes, very sad, he did so much for the kernel and will be greatly missed.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Re: [PATCH wireless] MAINTAINERS: Remembering Larry Finger

[Kalle Valo]

Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org> wrote:

> We got sad news that Larry is not with us anymore. He was a long time
> Linux developer, his first commit was back in 2005 and he has
> maintained several wireless drivers over the years. He was known for
> patiently supporting Linux users with all sorts of problems they had.
> Larry's work helped so many people around the world and I always
> enjoyed working with him, even though I sadly never met him.
> 
> Rest in Peace, Larry. You will be missed.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/77997185-86a6-41c5-af7a-74e4e9064437@lwfinger.net/
> Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/larry-finger-linux-wireless-hero-was-a-persistent-patient-coder-and-mentor/
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Patch applied to wireless.git, thanks.

c7049843db75 MAINTAINERS: Remembering Larry Finger

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20240625103929.1332926-1-kvalo@kernel.org/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches