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 5942BC00528 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2023 17:19:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232246AbjHARTP (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2023 13:19:15 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:58898 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233788AbjHARTN (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2023 13:19:13 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4641:c500::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C663B137 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2023 10:19:12 -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 5B6EE61590 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2023 17:19:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5C7A9C433C7; Tue, 1 Aug 2023 17:19:10 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1690910351; bh=F7aIk1U1l9tuxGzhLWqFjxngceqbK1kPItCQPAn02gc=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=mIGDMk3F2KAQC10VpUxNhI6wyOEd2+qhcwNo+X0S6hFhxsjcPr357d6L1UNdEDhDB x3c71KfAELgbQUg+5pSxVGA7M8Umi9US4+ColOqGd6IUQKJb7CccBt9pUq4rpMdG2q pYbwIBKZtdIEzfWa/enVnpc91XlDhCYwXo4Pwbh177SzNQ63FcUc+sNkC8U2HBlkBC XuGT0ER1irtgBsUey70/KdKyV+TAayWn5PzlYs3g9SIPr4bMbEWeSBdJ6VKhqzFBYX bbw5iPHATlNSx4jYhIbz2Ck8I6NBr4cnw5xXXZAI9EVt0Zo7Oyp6D/gnCAqZyerJP9 KMQiATSYl/Grg== From: Kalle Valo To: Larry Finger Cc: Dmitry Antipov , Ping-Ke Shih , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski , Hin-Tak Leung Subject: Re: 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> <87v8dzxg5l.fsf_-_@kernel.org> <92233d7c-9595-9223-39e1-6df68b13d474@lwfinger.net> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2023 20:19:08 +0300 In-Reply-To: <92233d7c-9595-9223-39e1-6df68b13d474@lwfinger.net> (Larry Finger's message of "Tue, 1 Aug 2023 12:04:55 -0500") Message-ID: <87y1iuwuib.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 Larry Finger writes: > On 8/1/23 04:31, Kalle Valo wrote: > >> + 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. > > Kalle, > > I removed Herton and Hin-Tak as Maintainers for rtl8187 and updated > the tree entries for rtl8187 and rtl8180. Patches are submitted. Thanks! -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches