netdev - Re: intersil: remove obsolete prism54 wireless driver

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Date:   Fri,  6 Aug 2021 08:57:37 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Subject: Re: intersil: remove obsolete prism54 wireless driver

Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com> wrote:

> Commit 1d89cae1b47d ("MAINTAINERS: mark prism54 obsolete") indicated the
> prism54 driver as obsolete in July 2010.
> 
> Now, after being exposed for ten years to refactoring, general tree-wide
> changes and various janitor clean-up, it is really time to delete the
> driver for good.
> 
> This was discovered as part of a checkpatch evaluation, investigating all
> reports of checkpatch's WARNING:OBSOLETE check.
> 
> p54 replaces prism54 so users should be unaffected. There was a one off chipset
> someone long ago reported that p54 didn't work with but the reporter never
> followed up on that. Additionally, distributions have been blacklisting prism54
> for years now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

d249ff28b1d8 intersil: remove obsolete prism54 wireless driver

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