From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>,
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>,
Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] char: pcmcia: remove all the drivers
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 10:33:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y/XhcXKd7imdWqzj@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230222092302.6348-2-jirislaby@kernel.org>
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 10:23:02AM +0100, Jiri Slaby (SUSE) wrote:
> These char PCMCIA drivers are buggy[1] and receive only minimal care. It
> was concluded[2], that we should try to remove most pcmcia drivers
> completely. Let's start with these char broken one.
>
> Note that I also removed a UAPI header: include/uapi/linux/cm4000_cs.h.
> I found only coccinelle tests mentioning some ioctl constants from that
> file. But they are not actually used. Anyway, should someone complain,
> we may reintroduce the header (or its parts).
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/f41c2765-80e0-48bc-b1e4-8cfd3230fd4a@www.fastmail.com/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/c5b39544-a4fb-4796-a046-0b9be9853787@app.fastmail.com/
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@kernel.org>
> Cc: "Hyunwoo Kim" <imv4bel@gmail.com>
> Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
> Cc: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
Nice! I'll queue this up in my tree after 6.3-rc1 is out if no one
objects by then.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-22 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-22 9:23 [PATCH v2 1/2] tty: ipwireless: move Kconfig entry to tty Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2023-02-22 9:23 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] char: pcmcia: remove all the drivers Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2023-02-22 9:33 ` Greg KH [this message]
2023-02-22 16:55 ` Dominik Brodowski
2023-02-23 8:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-02-22 16:42 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] tty: ipwireless: move Kconfig entry to tty David Sterba
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