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 AC43AEB64DD for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2023 09:34:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232427AbjHAJeF (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2023 05:34:05 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:34614 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231627AbjHAJdr (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2023 05:33:47 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [139.178.84.217]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5BA9F2107 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2023 02:31:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED52D61502 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2023 09:31:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 08AC7C433C7; Tue, 1 Aug 2023 09:31:35 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1690882297; bh=CVqA5Vht4PuGwAE/9jtG/mG2kDAFYN6aNKTpoaaDIRI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=QIEcNKYBVeRC2dpJ8xPnKX2OjtMQlMN77jlWqF5jID+27PETFayOGzNMm115182D8 GggIev406aUbHE+vfS0SmpBw5n4vQB5+l9kB5GO0GrhhD2Fxzdh5XX8BkEsyu9FSLo sdIW+Z/1BNHyBP+cnqGZYCCpz6THPOELgNz/SIRS3N3F9LRugX8VWqwXe2n5lhtC89 MHg3qvRFmuU7KR0ctrBsTuuHOjRP3DWDGP3IWq/IN2oLrrrTH38ZMmzYGWGbJs+wvP k8eoiE8+Q/7yv0rTBuD9Qo9qdzJzLk6cjv4g/25jQ/KHGf8GTA1Y4SgjQHsT+cszZ7 up5TolF18LzbA== From: Kalle Valo To: Larry Finger Cc: Dmitry Antipov , Ping-Ke Shih , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski , Hin-Tak Leung Subject: MAINTAINERS: rtl8187 wireless driver References: <20230608095051.116702-4-dmantipov@yandex.ru> <168664510862.24637.10587241603155144086.kvalo@kernel.org> <87h6rad3fp.fsf@kernel.org> <87cz1vbulk.fsf@kernel.org> <2e78d1f5-4dc5-9665-e3a1-ee00dcc41630@yandex.ru> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:31:34 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Larry Finger's message of "Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:06:59 -0500") Message-ID: <87v8dzxg5l.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 + Herton, Hin-Tak Larry Finger writes: > On 6/16/23 05:20, Dmitry Antipov wrote: >> Note MAINTAINERS marks drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8180 as >> orphaned but drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8187 as maintained. > > Driver rtl8187 is certainly maintained, not that it gets many bug > reports. Devices that support 802.11g are not used very often, but at > least once a year I use my device to get online to retrieve the > drivers for a fancier wifi card that does not have a driver in Linux > or Windows. Drivers for the USB-based 8187A and 8187B have been in > Linux since version 2.6.38 (December 2010), and also in Windows 7, if > not in older versions. So this is what we have in MAINTAINERS right now: RTL8187 WIRELESS DRIVER M: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski M: Hin-Tak Leung M: Larry Finger L: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained W: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/ T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git F: drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8187/ In the git history the last activity from Herton is from 2010 so I think we should remove him. Is Hin-Tak still active? The last activity is from 2020. Also the git tree is outdated so that should be removed. -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches