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 182A3C4167D for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:08:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1343738AbjJaJIK (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2023 05:08:10 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:57772 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S235768AbjJaJIJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2023 05:08:09 -0400 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3CE6191; Tue, 31 Oct 2023 02:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 84EEBC433C8; Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:08:02 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1698743286; bh=feIBOznLOh65axwYyiiYpq9McN8nBddJCuTkou94EY8=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=VblEe006dkOhHKFV8lXYkjBoV+/BKggu8KsI5kMIAb2Q1426nw4dRAAVoYwb69UEw G4GLrarHQQVvZuXCYCZpQm3MzyKeWeBmJjvlgQ6PMCq7xr4I4hB0HHfGshV2oZUG15 X6DMTAU3M/qqtSGFor+HnXWdZfMMByBst6bHmnUyfk/boW/rAygCoryItoD82ouGdQ F5rgczw5G1IKtPxgez4yKfn8OvhBZ5q4umOXcv+za1DnTK33HU98GoVwOWr045jrBq m/rH+Oca3fkh8qYaRN6iMziupF3suM3KgYmJZfX4wsLpF+TVmwMsBaFclHecefyoKM WMmuIxn5gT6Nw== From: Kalle Valo To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Arnd Bergmann , "David S . Miller" , Alexandre Belloni , Claudiu Beznea , Geert Uytterhoeven , Geoff Levand , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jakub Kicinski , Jeff Johnson , Johannes Berg , Larry Finger , Nicolas Ferre , Pavel Machek , Stanislaw Gruszka , Gregory Greenman , linuxppc-dev , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove obsolete and orphaned wifi drivers References: <20231023131953.2876682-1-arnd@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 11:08:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20231023131953.2876682-1-arnd@kernel.org> (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2023 15:19:42 +0200") Message-ID: <874ji7w45r.fsf@kernel.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Arnd Bergmann writes: > From: Arnd Bergmann > > As discussed previously, a lot of the older wifi drivers are likely > entirely unused, Though we can't know for sure. > > As suggested by both Greg and Jakub, let's remove the ones that look > are most likely to have no users left and also get in the way of the > wext cleanup. If anyone is still using any of these, we can revert the > driver removal individually. > > I would suggest merging these for net-next after 6.7-rc1 is out, to give > them the maximum amount of time for users to speak up before a release > comes out. > > This kills off all pcmcia wifi drivers, and all wext users in > drivers/net/wireless, but not the ps3-gelic-wireless driver in > drivers/net/ethernet, or the staging drivers. > > In staging, rtl8192u was already removed in the meantime, while rtl8712 > and rtl8192e are apparently still used. I have not been able to find > out whether ks7010 is still in use. > > Arnd > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231011080955.1beeb010@kernel.org/ > > > Arnd Bergmann (10): > wifi: libertas: drop 16-bit PCMCIA support > wifi: atmel: remove wext style at76c50x drivers > wifi: remove orphaned cisco/aironet driver > wifi: remove obsolete hostap driver > wifi: remove orphaned zd1201 driver > wifi: remove orphaned orinoco driver > wifi: remove orphaned ray_cs driver > wifi: remove orphaned wl3501 driver > wifi: remove orphaned rndis_wlan driver > [RFC] wifi: remove ipw2100/ipw2200 drivers I manually applied these 9 to wireless-next: 4b478bf6bdd8 wifi: libertas: drop 16-bit PCMCIA support 77e49bec6414 wifi: atmel: remove wext style at76c50x drivers 6853c70ba5ed wifi: remove orphaned cisco/aironet driver d0172d5f7576 wifi: remove obsolete hostap driver 757a46c2a7a9 wifi: remove orphaned zd1201 driver 1535d5962d79 wifi: remove orphaned orinoco driver 6b9dbaff83d6 wifi: remove orphaned ray_cs driver 238349207cd3 wifi: remove orphaned wl3501 driver bec95598b24a wifi: remove orphaned rndis_wlan driver I dropped this patch as we got several reports about people using the driver: [RFC] wifi: remove ipw2100/ipw2200 drivers The patches are queued for v6.8. Arnd, thanks a lot for cleaning this up! -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches