Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it

Joe Perches
2017-08-27T15:35:48Z

On Sun, 2017-08-27 at 17:03 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The IRDA code has long been obsolete and broken. So, to keep people
> from trying to use it, and to prevent people from having to maintain it,
> let's move it to drivers/staging/ so that we can delete it entirely from
> the kernel in a few releases.

MAINTAINERS should be updated as well.

It'd probably be nice to try to get an email to
the irda mailing list too if it still works.