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

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Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2017 07:06:43 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, 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, Aug 28, 2017 at 04:46:07PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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.

Oops, forgot those directories, will send a follow-on patch for that.

greg k-h