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

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Message-ID: <1503848143.12569.48.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sun, 27 Aug 2017 08:35:43 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        davem@...emloft.net, samuel@...tiz.org
Cc:     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 Sun, 2017-08-27 at 17:03 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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.

MAINTAINERS should be updated as well.

It'd probably be nice to try to get an email to
the irda mailing list too if it still works.