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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some cleanup patches for
 drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_mlme.c
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>,
        Matthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>
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        Cihangir Akturk <cakturk@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
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On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 12:00 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:

> Nothing wrong with these patches, however I intend to post a patch to
> remove this driver soon, so it's kind of a waste of your time to spend
> too many cycles on it.

It might be useful to mark any drivers you're
planning on removing as "Obsolete" in MAINTAINERS.

checkpatch will then emit a "don't waste your time"
message if anyone scans an obsolete driver/file.