From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
To: Igor Mitsyanko <i.mitsyanko@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jeff Johnson" <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>,
"Alexis Lothoré" <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com>,
"Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"Ajay Singh" <ajay.kathat@microchip.com>,
"Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"Sergey Matyukevich" <geomatsi@gmail.com>,
"kernel test robot" <lkp@intel.com>,
"Claudiu Beznea" <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>,
srini.raju@purelifi.com, krystal.heaton@onsemi.com
Subject: Re: wireless: orphan qfnfmac and plfxlc drivers?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:00:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87msrmj9c8.fsf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21846c39-b5c5-482c-97be-51e36e1ebf49@gmail.com> (Igor Mitsyanko's message of "Sun, 25 Feb 2024 18:13:33 -0800")
Igor Mitsyanko <i.mitsyanko@gmail.com> writes:
> On 2/16/24 01:37, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 2/15/2024 9:21 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>>> <imitsyanko@quantenna.com>: host mail.quantenna.com[50.87.249.29] said: 550 No
>>>> Such User Here (in reply to RCPT TO command)
>>> Apparently Quantenna was acquired by ON Semi in 2019[1], and in 2022
>>> they closed it down[2]. Seems pretty abandoned to me.
>> Thanks Jeff. I do wonder is anyone even using qtnfmac and plfxlc? Maybe
>> we should just delete the drivers as nobody seems to care about them?
>>
> (replacing imitsyanko@quantenna.com with my personal email)
>
> Hi Kalle, Jeff,
>
> that's right, Quantenna division was shutdown by ON. To my knowledge
> no users of qtnfmac drivers are left after that. I would think
> removing driver altogether is the right approach. I'm not associated
> with ON anymore so it's just my personal opinion.
>
> CCing Krystal Heaton who I found on ON "contacts" web page (just in
> case someone from ON wants to comment if removing qtnfmac driver from
> Linux kernel is a concern).
Sad news but thanks for letting us know. So unless anyone else objects
the plan is to remove qtnfmac driver in the near future.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-27 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-15 14:13 [PATCH 0/2] wifi: nl80211/wilc1000: force WLAN_AKM_SUITE_SAE to big endian in NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH Alexis Lothoré
2024-02-15 14:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] wifi: nl80211: force WLAN_AKM_SUITE_SAE in " Alexis Lothoré
2024-02-15 16:58 ` Kalle Valo
2024-02-16 8:21 ` Alexis Lothoré
2024-02-16 9:34 ` Kalle Valo
2024-02-15 14:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] wifi: wilc1000: remove AKM suite be32 conversion for external auth request Alexis Lothoré
2024-02-21 18:54 ` Kalle Valo
2024-02-15 15:50 ` [PATCH 0/2] wifi: nl80211/wilc1000: force WLAN_AKM_SUITE_SAE to big endian in NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH Alexis Lothoré
2024-02-15 17:06 ` wireless: orphan qfnfmac and plfxlc drivers? Kalle Valo
2024-02-15 17:21 ` Kalle Valo
2024-02-15 18:51 ` Jeff Johnson
2024-02-16 9:37 ` Kalle Valo
2024-02-26 2:13 ` Igor Mitsyanko
2024-02-27 14:00 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2024-02-28 3:02 ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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