linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB: Move wusbcore and UWB to staging as it is obsolete

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Date:   Tue, 06 Aug 2019 03:29:40 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: Move wusbcore and UWB to staging as it is obsolete

On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 12:15 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The UWB and wusbcore code is long obsolete, so let us just move the code
> out of the real part of the kernel and into the drivers/staging/
> location with plans to remove it entirely in a few releases.
[]
>  MAINTAINERS                                   | 15 +++-------
[]
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
[]
> @@ -3800,14 +3800,9 @@ F:	scripts/sign-file.c
>  F:	scripts/extract-cert.c
>  
>  CERTIFIED WIRELESS USB (WUSB) SUBSYSTEM:
> -L:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
> +L:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
>  S:	Orphan

Better to mark this as obsolete so checkpatch emits
a message saying "no unnecessary modifications"