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[24.200.128.65]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r21-20020ac85215000000b00417fa0cd77esm3638949qtn.80.2023.10.30.11.42.40 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 30 Oct 2023 11:42:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 14:42:40 -0400 From: Benjamin Poirier To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jakub Kicinski Cc: Kira , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Jonathan Corbet , Manish Chopra , GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com, Coiby Xu , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Helge Deller , Sven Joachim , Ian Kent , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Revert "staging: qlge: Retire the driver" Message-ID: References: <20231030150400.74178-1-benjamin.poirier@gmail.com> <2023103001-drew-parmesan-c61a@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@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: On 2023-10-30 12:33 -0400, Benjamin Poirier wrote: > On 2023-10-30 16:25 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 02:04:00AM +1100, Benjamin Poirier wrote: > > > This reverts commit 875be090928d19ff4ae7cbaadb54707abb3befdf. > > > > > > On All Hallows' Eve, fear and cower for it is the return of the undead > > > driver. > > > > > > There was a report [1] from a user of a QLE8142 device. They would like for > > > the driver to remain in the kernel. Therefore, revert the removal of the > > > qlge driver. > > > > > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/566c0155-4f80-43ec-be2c-2d1ad631bf25@gmail.com/ > > > > Who's going to maintain this? > > I was planning to update the MAINTAINERS entry to > S: Orphan > when moving it back to drivers/net/. Would you prefer that I do that > change in a second patch right after the revert in staging? That would > certainly make things clearer. > > > > Reported by: Kira > > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier > > > --- > > > > > > Notes: > > > Once the removal and revert show up in the net-next tree, I plan to send a > > > followup patch to move the driver to drivers/net/ as discussed earlier: > > > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231019074237.7ef255d7@kernel.org/ > > > > are you going to be willing to maintain this and keep it alive? > > No. > > > I'm all this, if you want to, but I would like it out of staging. So > > I'd like it out of staging as well. Since nobody wants to maintain it, I > think it should be deleted. However, my understanding is that Jakub is > willing to take it back into drivers/net/ as-is given that there is at > least one user. Jakub, did I understand that correctly? > > > how about applying this, and a follow-on one that moves it there once > > -rc1 is out? And it probably should be in the 'net' tree, as you don't > > want 6.7 to come out without the driver at all, right? > > Right about making sure 6.7 includes the driver. The 'net' tree is > usually for fixes hence why I would send to net-next. So the driver > would still be in staging for 6.7 (if you include the revert in your > 6.7-rc1 submission) and would be back in drivers/net/ for 6.8. Rereading, I think I misunderstood your suggestion. You're suggesting that I submit the revert through the net tree rather than the staging tree. That sounds good. I'll do that once the removal shows up there.