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

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Message-ID: <87edhlz9ij.fsf@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:41:24 +0300
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>
To:     "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...nel.org>,
        "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

"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de> writes:

> 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.

Ah, good that we are on the same page then :)

>> 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!

Thanks for the patches! I applied them to our pending branch for some
build testing, there were few conflicts I guess due to recent cleanup
patches but obviously easy to fix :)

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next.git/log/?h=pending

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