linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gigaset: stop maintaining seperately

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Date:   Sat, 27 Jul 2019 14:27:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pebolle@...cali.nl
Cc:     tilman@...p.cc, hjlipp@....de, arnd@...db.de, kkeil@...ux-pingi.de,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gigaset: stop maintaining seperately

From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 00:05:41 +0200

> The Dutch consumer grade ISDN network will be shut down on September 1,
> 2019. This means I'll be converted to some sort of VOIP shortly. At that
> point it would be unwise to try to maintain the gigaset driver, even for
> odd fixes as I do. So I'll stop maintaining it as a seperate driver and
> bump support to CAPI in staging. De facto this means the driver will be
> unmaintained, since no-one seems to be working on CAPI.
> 
> I've lighty tested the hardware specific modules of this driver (bas-gigaset,
> ser-gigaset, and usb-gigaset) for v5.3-rc1. The basic functionality appears to
> be working. It's unclear whether anyone still cares. I'm aware of only one
> person sort of using the driver a few years ago.
> 
> Thanks to Karsten Keil for the ISDN subsystems gigaset was using (I4L and
> CAPI). And many thanks to Hansjoerg Lipp and Tilman Schmidt for writing and
> upstreaming this driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>

Applied.