linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB: Move wusbcore and UWB to staging as it is obsolete

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Date:   Tue, 6 Aug 2019 13:35:01 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, 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Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: Move wusbcore and UWB to staging as it is obsolete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, Aug 06, 2019 at 03:29:40AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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"
> 
> 

Ah, good point, will do that as an add-on patch after this.

thanks,

greg k-h