linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove obsolete and orphaned wifi drivers

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Message-Id: <50eafe40-9c50-48e2-8d48-6a113c8fd87d@app.fastmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:10:16 +0200
From:   "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To:     "Kalle Valo" <kvalo@...nel.org>, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Alexandre Belloni" <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        "Claudiu Beznea" <claudiu.beznea@...on.dev>,
        "Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        "Geoff Levand" <geoff@...radead.org>,
        "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "Jeff Johnson" <quic_jjohnson@...cinc.com>,
        "Johannes Berg" <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        "Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        "Nicolas Ferre" <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
        "Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz>, "Stanislaw Gruszka" <stf_xl@...pl>,
        "Gregory Greenman" <gregory.greenman@...el.com>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove obsolete and orphaned wifi drivers

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023, at 15:45, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org> writes:
>
>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>>
>> As discussed previously, a lot of the older wifi drivers are likely
>> entirely unused, Though we can't know for sure.
>>
>> As suggested by both Greg and Jakub, let's remove the ones that look
>> are most likely to have no users left and also get in the way of the
>> wext cleanup. If anyone is still using any of these, we can revert the
>> driver removal individually.
>>
>> I would suggest merging these for net-next after 6.7-rc1 is out
>
> Why net-next? I want to take these to wireless-next to avoid any
> conflicts with other wireless patches.

My mistake, I actually rebased them on top of wireless-next before
sending out the patches, I just forgot update the text I had
already written a week earlier.

> We could take these to wireless-next after we submit the last new
> features (-next) pull request to v6.7, so most likely already next week.
> So if anyone has any problems with these speak up now.

Sounds good to me, thanks!

    Arnd