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Message-ID: <8ac5417d-29f7-664f-1a7f-b86ef5cbe3d3@imap.cc>
Date:   Sun, 28 Jul 2019 16:17:17 +0200
From:   Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
To:     Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@....de>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Karsten Keil <kkeil@...ux-pingi.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gigaset: stop maintaining seperately

Thanks to you, Paul, for all your contributions, and specifically for
keeping the driver maintained for four more years after I had to abandon
it for the same reason.

I had a lot of fun working on that driver and I learned a lot in the
course. Now it's time to move on without regrets.

All the best,
Tilman

Am 27.07.2019 um 00:05 schrieb Paul Bolle:
> 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>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 7 -------
>  1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 783569e3c4b4..e99afbd13355 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -6822,13 +6822,6 @@ F:	Documentation/filesystems/gfs2*.txt
>  F:	fs/gfs2/
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/gfs2_ondisk.h
>  
> -GIGASET ISDN DRIVERS
> -M:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
> -L:	gigaset307x-common@...ts.sourceforge.net
> -W:	http://gigaset307x.sourceforge.net/
> -S:	Odd Fixes
> -F:	drivers/staging/isdn/gigaset/
> -
>  GNSS SUBSYSTEM
>  M:	Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
>  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/johan/gnss.git
>