From: "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wimax <linux-wimax@intel.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 04/11] wimax: fix duplicate initializer warning
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:51:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b102ea5e9e2e4365a1c05a1c24e66cc4@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a30T5o=EEnp3sdNM5iqsSaL6DKZONGBs+3S6g+36uHVzQ@mail.gmail.com>
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
>
> Makes sense. I checked
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WiMAX_networks, and it appears
> that these entries are all stale, after everyone has migrated to LTE
> or discontinued their service altogether.
>
> NetworkManager appears to have dropped userspace support in 2015
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747846, the
> www.linuxwimax.org site had already shut down earlier.
>
> WiMax is apparently still being deployed on airport campus
> networks ("AeroMACS"), but in a frequency band that was not
> supported by the old Intel 2400m (used in Sandy Bridge laptops
> and earlier), which is the only driver using the kernel's wimax
> stack.
>
> Inaky, do you have any additional information about possible
> users? If we are sure there are none, then I'd suggest removing
> all the wimax code directly, otherwise it could go through
> drivers/staging/ for a release or two (and move it back in case
> there are users after all). I can send a patch if you like.
I have not
Every now and then I get the occasional message from a student or
researcher asking for support about a production network, but they
have dwindled in the last years.
My vote would be to scrap the whole thing; if there are die hard
users, they can always rise up and move it back from staging.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-27 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-26 21:29 [PATCH net-next 01/11] atm: horizon: shut up clang null pointer arithmetic warning Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-26 21:29 ` [PATCH net-next 02/11] net: hostap: fix function cast warning Arnd Bergmann
2020-11-07 11:37 ` Kalle Valo
2020-10-26 21:29 ` [PATCH net-next 04/11] wimax: fix duplicate initializer warning Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-27 7:22 ` Johannes Berg
2020-10-27 11:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-27 14:51 ` Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky [this message]
2020-10-26 21:29 ` [PATCH net-next 05/11] wimax/i2400m/control: fix enum warning Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-26 21:29 ` [PATCH net-next 06/11] rtlwifi: fix -Wpointer-sign warning Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-27 1:29 ` Pkshih
2020-10-26 21:29 ` [PATCH net-next 07/11] rtw88: remove extraneous 'const' qualifier Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-27 1:49 ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-10-26 21:29 ` [PATCH net-next 08/11] ath9k: work around false-positive gcc warning Arnd Bergmann
2020-11-02 16:26 ` Kalle Valo
2020-11-02 17:59 ` Johannes Berg
2020-11-02 22:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-11-07 11:18 ` Kalle Valo
2020-11-07 11:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-11-10 18:13 ` Kalle Valo
2020-10-26 21:29 ` [PATCH net-next 09/11] ath6kl: fix enum-conversion warning Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-27 6:15 ` Kalle Valo
2020-11-07 8:08 ` Kalle Valo
2020-10-26 21:29 ` [PATCH net-next 10/11] ch_ktls: " Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-26 21:42 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-10-26 21:29 ` [PATCH net-next 11/11] ipv6: fix type mismatch warning Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-27 3:55 ` [PATCH net-next 01/11] atm: horizon: shut up clang null pointer arithmetic warning Xie He
2020-10-27 4:02 ` Xie He
2020-10-27 13:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-27 21:46 ` Xie He
2020-10-28 0:42 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-28 8:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
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