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[84.160.113.44]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 4fb4d7f45d1cf-5ca0b076d7dsm1519593a12.14.2024.10.18.23.45.38 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:45:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <96ae2b42-c0ce-4d9a-8933-eb874dc5589b@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 08:45:37 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US From: Philipp Hortmann Subject: [RFC] staging: fieldbus: Proposal to delete driver To: Sven Van Asbroeck , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: "Ricardo B. Marliere" , Christophe JAILLET , Ruan Jinjie , Zhu Wang , =?UTF-8?Q?Uwe_Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= , Deepak R Varma , Ajith P V , Tian Tao , Rikard Falkeborn , Ding Xiang , Jing Xiangfeng , Cristiane Naves , YueHaibing , Oscar Gomez Fuente , Nicholas Mc Guire Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Sirs, Sven Van Asbroeck contributed this driver in 2019. The following points let me propose to delete the driver: - This driver generates maintenance workload - only 11 patches during the last 3 years. Part of the patches seem to be motivated because of maintenance (for example - remove deprecated function) - Maintainer lost interest, last "Reviewed-by:" is May 2021 - no blog about usage of this driver The staging subsystem is the way for drivers into the kernel - at current speed and interest this is never going to happen. I think that fieldbus is an interesting topic. But when almost nobody cares about this driver, it does not make sense to keep it. Please consider that support will remain for years in the longterm kernels. Thanks for any response about your thoughts. No response will result in a patch for removal in 14 days. This time can be shorted or extended by appropriate comments. Bye Philipp