Re: MAINTAINERS: rtl8187 wireless driver

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>]

Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> writes:

> On 8/1/23 04:31, Kalle Valo wrote:
>
>> + Herton, Hin-Tak
>> Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> 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 <herton@canonical.com>
>> M:	Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
>> M:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
>> 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 Also the git tree is outdated so that should be removed.
>
> Kalle,
>
> I removed Herton and Hin-Tak as Maintainers for rtl8187 and updated
> the tree entries for rtl8187 and rtl8180. Patches are submitted.

Thanks!

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