linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it

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Date:   Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:46:07 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     samuel@...tiz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it

On Mon, 2017-08-28 at 16:42 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 17:03:30 +0200
> 
> > The IRDA code has long been obsolete and broken.  So, to keep people
> > from trying to use it, and to prevent people from having to maintain it,
> > let's move it to drivers/staging/ so that we can delete it entirely from
> > the kernel in a few releases.
> 
> No objection, I'll apply this to net-next, thanks Greg.

Still needs an update to MAINTAINERS.