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[209.85.128.182]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id z9-20020a258689000000b00d89679f6d22sm11616ybk.64.2023.10.12.08.12.08 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 12 Oct 2023 08:12:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-yw1-f182.google.com with SMTP id 00721157ae682-5a7be61fe74so13859437b3.2 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2023 08:12:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a81:8246:0:b0:58d:f1fe:5954 with SMTP id s67-20020a818246000000b0058df1fe5954mr25609250ywf.32.1697123526926; Thu, 12 Oct 2023 08:12:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20231010155444.858483-1-arnd@kernel.org> <2023101051-unmasked-cleaver-79b3@gregkh> <87y1g94szz.fsf@kernel.org> <2023101139-pyromania-game-2237@gregkh> <87r0m1fwg9.fsf@kernel.org> <20231011080955.1beeb010@kernel.org> <87sf6g2hc8.fsf@kernel.org> <63e57ef8-c9f2-489a-8df8-51dcffd437c6@app.fastmail.com> <87fs2fgals.fsf@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <87fs2fgals.fsf@kernel.org> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:11:53 +0200 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] wireless: move obsolete drivers to staging To: Kalle Valo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Alexandre Belloni , Arnd Bergmann , Geoff Levand , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Ferre , Claudiu Beznea , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Pavel Machek , Jakub Kicinski , linuxppc-dev , "David S . Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Larry Finger Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" CC geoff, ppc On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 4:46=E2=80=AFPM Kalle Valo wrote= : > "Arnd Bergmann" writes: > > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2023, at 13:47, Kalle Valo wrote: > >> > >> Is anyone willing to submit patches? Use wireless-next as the baseline > >> for patches and one driver per commit, please. That way it's easy to > >> revert later, if needed (hopefully not). > > > > I can do it, I've already done most of the work for moving the > > drivers, so I just need to split up my existing patch and leave out > > the bits that get added to drivers/staging. > > Awesome, thank you! > > > I'll also send Greg a patch to remove rtl8192u now that we know > > that this has been broken for 7 years. Similarly, I'd include > > another patch to remove PCMCIA support for libertas, as that > > would otherwise be the only remaining 16-bit PCMCIA wlan card, > > and I could find no indication of this one ever being popular, > > unlike the USB/SDIO/SPI variants of the same device or the > > other PCMCIA drivers. > > > > This would leave only a handful of wext implementations in the > > tree: ipw2x00, ps3-gelic-wireless, staging/rtl8712, staging/rtl8192e > > and staging/ks7010. Since ipw2x00 is apparently still supported > > in theory and was rather popular on Pentium-M based systems 20 > > years ago, this may still need to be converted to cfg80211 > > before you can remove support for wext style drivers altogether. > > ps3-gelic-wireless and rtl8712 are also still maintained but have > > a much smaller user base I assume. > > Actually I would prefer to remove ipw2x00 and ps3-gelic-wireless as > well. I have not seen any evidence that there would be users for those > drivers. If we find out that there really are users I can easily add the > drivers back. The faster we get rid of wext the better, it really needs > to go away. > > -- > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ > > https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpa= tches