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Mon, 3 Aug 2026 12:14:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dovecot-director2.suse.de ([2a07:de40:b281:106:10:150:64:167]) by imap1.dmz-prg2.suse.org with ESMTPSA id zZ0gFhaGcGp1PQAAD6G6ig (envelope-from ); Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:14:14 +0000 Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 14:14:09 +0200 From: David Sterba To: Qingfang Deng Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby , Jakub Kicinski , Andrew Lunn , Ethan Nelson-Moore , Geert Uytterhoeven , Eric Biggers , Mingyu Wang <25181214217@stu.xidian.edu.cn>, "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Kees Cook , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Kosina , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: remove the ipwireless driver Message-ID: <20260803121409.GA867448@suse.cz> Reply-To: dsterba@suse.cz References: <20260803091938.259944-1-qingfang.deng@linux.dev> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260803091938.259944-1-qingfang.deng@linux.dev> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23.1-rc1 (2014-03-12) X-Spam-Score: -4.00 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 50.00]; BAYES_HAM(-3.00)[100.00%]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.30)[dsterba@suse.cz]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.20)[-0.991]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWELVE(0.00)[20]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_ENVRCPT(0.00)[gmail.com]; URIBL_BLOCKED(0.00)[suse.cz:mid,suse.cz:replyto,imap1.dmz-prg2.suse.org:helo,suse.com:email,linux.dev:email]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_CC(0.00)[linux.ibm.com,ellerman.id.au,gmail.com,kernel.org,linuxfoundation.org,lunn.ch,linux-m68k.org,stu.xidian.edu.cn,orcam.me.uk,vger.kernel.org,lists.ozlabs.org]; DKIM_SIGNED(0.00)[suse.cz:s=susede2_rsa,suse.cz:s=susede2_ed25519]; REPLYTO_ADDR_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; DBL_BLOCKED_OPENRESOLVER(0.00)[linux.dev:email,suse.com:email,suse.cz:mid,suse.cz:replyto,imap1.dmz-prg2.suse.org:helo]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; REPLYTO_DOM_NEQ_TO_DOM(0.00)[] On Mon, Aug 03, 2026 at 05:19:18PM +0800, Qingfang Deng wrote: > The last mentions of this driver on local Linux and telco support forums > date back to 2011. This does not prove that no users remain, but the > likelihood is too low to justify continuing to carry the driver in the > kernel. > > The maintainer agreed that the driver should be removed and noted that it > is simple enough to build as an external module if a user resurfaces [1]. > > Remove the driver along with its Kconfig, defconfig, build and MAINTAINERS > entries. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/20260218152330.GI26902@suse.cz/ > > Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5.6 > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org This is not for stable trees. > Signed-off-by: Qingfang Deng Reviewed-by: David Sterba Acked-by: David Sterba