linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RFC] wireless: move obsolete drivers to staging

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Message-Id: <2fb4f151-9146-4cce-a3e6-ca80a95cf590@app.fastmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 13 Oct 2023 17:44:43 +0200
From:   "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To:     "Geoff Levand" <geoff@...radead.org>,
        "Johannes Berg" <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        "Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     "Kalle Valo" <kvalo@...nel.org>,
        "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...nel.org>,
        "Nicolas Ferre" <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
        "Alexandre Belloni" <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        "Claudiu Beznea" <claudiu.beznea@...on.dev>,
        "Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] wireless: move obsolete drivers to staging

On Thu, Oct 12, 2023, at 18:36, Geoff Levand wrote:
> On 10/12/23 17:41, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> But seriously - is it worth to try to keep a wireless driver for it if
>> we don't even know anyone using a PS3 at all?
>
> There is still a considerable user base for the PS3, so we
> must keep the ps3-gelic-wireless driver.

Do you know if anyone has tried changing this driver over to the
cfg80211 interface from the wireless extensions? With the
series I have prepared now, it is the only driver outside of
drivers/staging that still uses wext and stops us from removing
that altogether. 

[side note: it appears that the PS3 I have is the only model
 without wireless networking, as I bought cheapest Asian 20GB version
 back in early 2007. It still has the original firmware on it
 and should run Linux, but I haven't tried it since at least
 2009].

    Arnd