linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some cleanup patches for drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw

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Date:   Tue, 06 Sep 2016 12:11:52 -0400
From:   Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Matthias Beyer <mail@...ermatthias.de>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        Manuel Messner <manuel.johannes.messner@...furtwangen.de>,
        Geliang Tang <geliangtang@....com>,
        Cihangir Akturk <cakturk@...il.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some cleanup patches for drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_mlme.c

Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 12:00 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>
>> Nothing wrong with these patches, however I intend to post a patch to
>> remove this driver soon, so it's kind of a waste of your time to spend
>> too many cycles on it.
>
> It might be useful to mark any drivers you're
> planning on removing as "Obsolete" in MAINTAINERS.
>
> checkpatch will then emit a "don't waste your time"
> message if anyone scans an obsolete driver/file.

I see, wasn't aware of that. I did add a printk to it for 4.6 notifying
users that the driver was going to go away.

Jes